Short Drama | Australia | 2018 | 16 Min |

A unique, intimate bond between mother and daughter becomes threatened when the mother
helps her teenage daughter throw a party to impress new, more popular friends.

‘Tangles and Knots’ is this week’s Staff Pick Premiere. Read more about it on the Vimeo Blog: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/tangles-and-knots-renee-marie-petropoulos/

‘Tangles and Knots’ was produced on the land of the Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation.

We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which we work and pay
our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been
ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Festivals:
68th Berlinale: Generation 14Plus Competition 2018
SXSW: Narrative Shorts Competition 2018
Sydney Film Festival 2018
Palm Springs International Shortfest 2018
Melbourne International Film Festival 2018
Athens International Film Festival 2018
Pluk De Nacht Open Air Film Festival 2018
Adelaide Film Festival 2018
41st Denver Film Festival 2018
17th Cinemaforum International Film Festival 2018
London Short Film Festival 2019
Flickerfest 2019
Reelgood Film Festival 2019
New Filmmakers Los Angeles 2019
Brooklyn Film Festival 2019
St Kilda Film Festival 2019
Athens Short Film Festival 2019
CinefestOz Film Festival 2019
Hollyshorts Film Festival 2019

Awards and Nominations:
Winner of Best International Short Film at the New Filmmakers Los Angeles 2020 Awards
Winner of Best Female Director Award at Hollyshorts Film Festival 2019
Winner of Canon Award for Best Direction in an Australian Short Film | Flickerfest 2019
Winner of Best International Student Filmmaker Award at the Denver Film Festival 2018
Nominated for Best Achievement in Screenplay at the St Kilda Film Festival 2019
Nominated for the 2019 ADG award for Best Direction in a Student Short Film
Nominated for AACTA 2018 Best Short Fiction Film Award
Special Mention – Event Cinemas Australian Short Screenplay Award | Sydney Film Festival 2018
Winner of Best National Short Film | Greek Australian Short Film Festival 2018
Selected for ‘Student Selects’ & ‘Faculty Selects’ as part of the Columbia University Film Festival 2017
Received the ‘Audience Choice Award’ for Program E, Columbia University Film Festival 2017

Credits:
Starring: Leeanna Walsman & Odessa Young
Supporting Cast: Mitzi Ruhlmann, Toby Wallace, Govinda Röser-Finch, Bryn Chapman Parish
Written and Directed by Renée Marie Petropoulos
Produced by Janet Brown & Yingna Lu
Co-Produced by Kristin Frost
Associate Producer – Melina Maraki
Executive Producer – Alexandra Petropoulos
Director of Photography – Zoë White, ACS
Production Designer – Diva Abrahamian
Casting by – Stevie Ray, CGA
Costume Designer – Lucia Arias-Martinez
Hair & Makeup – Candice Hickson
Editors – Renée Marie Petropoulos & Chelsea Taylor
Sound Designer – Eli Cohn
Colour by – Kath Raisch
Production Manager – Yingna Lu
1st Assistant Director – Stefanie Foerster
Stunt Coordinator – Tony Lynch

A Jars Productions & Paper Moose Production