Magpie (On The Verge 2025)
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About Magpie
Maya and Tessa sit in a parked car at the bottom of Ben Dubh in Loch Lomond and prepare to scatter their father’s ashes. Neither of them are ready to confront the reality of what they are about to do. The car becomes a pressure cooker for long held tensions, unresolved griefs and buried truths. Navigating the unpredictable terrain of love, loss and environmental guilt, the sisters are forced to confront not just the weight of death but the fragility of life. Intimate, raw and darkly funny, this story captures the messiness of saying goodbye.
Content/Trigger Warnings: Grief, climate crisis, animal harm and loss
Credits
Creative Team
Written, Directed, Produced and Created by Elizabeth Anderson and Molly Keating
Production Team & Crew
Director of Photography Monet Debose
Musical Director Falk Meir
Sound Technician David Nisbet
Colourist Kieran McLaughlin
Drone Pilot and Transport Tomas McFarland
1st Assistant Director Deia McAllister
Script Supervisor and Clapper Blaire Sharman
Best Boy and Base Runner Pablo Lopez Sanchez-Matas
Editing Mentor Francesca McBride
Recording Studio Engineer Oscar Dash
Music
‘The Lost Words Blessing’
Sung by: Molly Keating and Elizabeth Anderson
Special thanks to:
Thomas Anderson, Ella Keating, Katie Slater, Cordane Richardson, Lorna Mcfarlane, Ben Cunningham, Mia Haden, Liam Holmes, Brian Ferguson, Rogelio Neveras, Leonor Estrada, Marc Silberschatz, Kim Beveridge