ONS ALBERTINIA short film, 2019, 20m

editor

starring Crystal-Donna Roberts, Shimmy Isaacs, Deon Lotz, Cody Mountain

written and directed by Chantel Clark
produced by Morgan Ackley
cinematography Pierre de Villiers

South Africa, 1990. When the crumbling Apartheid regime affords Marie Abrahams an opportunity to sell the family farm, her daughter Inge fights to keep their ancestral land.

Official Selection:
40th Durban International Film Festival
28th Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival
24th Afrika Film Festival, Leuven 
22nd Zanzibar International Film Festival
21st Zimbabwe International Film Festival
20th Woodstock Film Festival
17th Cannes Festival International du Film Panafricain
17th Shnit Worldwide Short Film Festival
15th Rwanda Film Festival
15th LA Femme Film Festival
14th Harlem International Film Festival
12th Cape Town International Film Market & Festival
10th Silicon Valley African Film Festival
9th Africa International Film Festival
9th Luxor African Film Festival
8th Katra Film Series
7th Socially Relevant Film Festival
5th RapidLion South African International Film Festival
5th Gorée Cinema Festival
5th Out of Africa International Film Festival
5th The African Film Festival
4th Urusaro International Women Film Festival
4th Ridgefield Independent Film Festival
2nd African Women Arts & Film Festival
1st Cotonou International Women's Film Festival
1st Knysna Film Festival

Awards:
National Board of Review Student Grant
Big Sky Edit Visionary Award
Audience Award: Shnit Worldwide Film Festival
Special Jury Mention, Best Screenplay: FIFF Cotonou
Special Jury Mention, African Short Fiction: Urusaro
International Women Film Festival
Nominee, Best Student Short: Woodstock Film Festival
Nominee, Best Student Short: RapidLion South African
International Film Festival
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Thesis Film Fund Award
ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop Selection
Film Pipeline: Short Film Competition Finalist
Columbia University Best Producer Award: Morgan Ackley

Press:
Cape Talk: Interview with Pippa Hudson
National Board of Review Student Grants
Film Pipeline: Finalists.
Screencraft Film Fund Semi-Finalists
Oudtshoorn Newspaper
Columbia University Film Festival
Columbia University Alumni News