Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

High Maintenance


Award-winning short film directed by Phillip Van Written by Simon Biggs Produced by Cordula Kablitz-Post DP Felix Novo D'Oliveira Editor Dorothee Brockelman Cast: Jane: Nicolette Krebitz Paul: Wanja Mues Summary: Jane is unhappy with her dull husband and monotonous marriage. Thankfully, in the near-future satisfaction is guaranteed and upgrades are always available. *Winner of over a dozen awards, including a Student Academy Award, Berlin International Film Festival Talent Campus Award, HBO US Comedy Arts Best Short Award, Delta's Fly-In Movies Competition at Sundance, Florida & Seattle Int'l FF Audience Awards, and a BAFTA/LA award. An Avanti Media Production.

Explore...

An Introduction to Screenwriting - Online Course

The Silent Child - Oscar-winning short film

The Ellington Kid: VICE Shorts

Spielberg: How to Introduce Characters

6 of the Best Shots of All Time

About a girl, Brian Percival, 2001

Comedy Shorts - Funny Valentines: 6. Nick Helm

Screenplay examples with visuals from the film

Mastering Composition + Cinematography with Will Smith

3 Brilliant Moments in the Visuals of Emotion

New...

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Artificial intelligence and assessments

How robots are taking over warehouse work

Key Stage 3 practical sessions information

10S7 Resources 25_04_24

Bronze Expedition Letter 2024

My Examinations

School Policies

Discover...

ZEN Vimeo Phillip Van Videos GCE Screenplay Short Film Film Studies Computer Science Film4 Ingredients Careers Documentary Year 10 Careers and Training Policy Parent Information Test Bullying ICT Aesthetics Recipes Cinefix BBC Iplayer

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...