Changeling

UK  | 2019  | 9 minutes  | Director: Faye Jackson 

A new mother becomes increasingly mesmerised and appalled by the strange transformations happening around her baby. She instinctively hides them, unaware they are building towards a final metamorphosis - hers.

Scottish writer/director Faye Jackson specialises in horror and fantasy, drawing much of her inspiration from folklore and fairy tales. Faye’s breakthrough body horror short “Lump” featured in New York magazine as one of the top 5 shorts of the 44th New York Film Festival, where it screened on the closing night, twinned with “Pan’s Labyrinth”. She shot her debut feature “Strigoi”, about the “real” Romanian vampires in rural Romania with an entirely Romanian cast. “Strigoi” won over 15 festival awards including: Best Independent Film at Toronto After Dark and the Melies D’argent at Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival. “Strigoi” was distributed internationally on VOD and DVD. Faye has a few feature projects in development including period fantasy “The Fisherwoman And The Sea” and sci-fi satire “Snowflakes”. Her most recent short film, a dark fairy tale starring Sara Kestelman, “The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under The Stairs” screened at festivals including: Fantasia, Florida Film Festival, Underwire and London Short Film Festival