Award of Merit – “We Need To Talk” (Australia)

Title: We Need To Talk
Runtime: 42 min
Country: Australia
Director: David Maxwell Raynor
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: September 30, 2017

Synopsis: Bree Nachor, at the age of 20 was literally bullied to death. She hung herself on her 20th birthday. She comes back for one meeting as a spirit, and talks to Maddie Nachor, her mother. This will be the last time they meet. They needed to talk long before this and Maddie has many questions, as does Bree’s spirit. If only they had talked earlier this would not have happened. Bree’s spirit takes her mother into the Spirit world where Bree shows her mother the other suicide victims and also Maddie meets the Spirit Angel who explains that the end of the world is near.

Bree and Maddie get to talk about what happened and why her death occurred and what can change  so that the suicide toll is drastically reduces.