MARIGOLDS - Award Winning Short Film aired on BBC HD Shorts.

Susannah is living a typically quiet and dusty life in the suburbs with her husband Paul, when an unexpected visit from her son, Piers, surfaces a dark secret that has been brewing since he left the nest 15 years ago. As Susannah struggles to come to terms with Piers' relationship with his new girlfriend, her typical mediocre existence is slowly stripped away to reveal an obsession that is anything but typical...or secret.

Marigolds is my first short film and won BEST DIRECTOR at Underwire Film Festival and nominated for Best Screenplay. It received rave reviews in Little White Lies, Best for Film, Smoke Screen and Varsity online at the London Short Film Festival.

Marigolds aired on the last instalment of BBC HD SHORTS in February 2012.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c9d8q

PRESS/REVIEWS:

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/articles/london-short-film-festival-2011-round-up-part-i-13586

http://www.smokescreenlondon.com/event-reviews/2015/4/14/shorts-on-tap-showcasing-women-filmmakers-at-the-new-deptford-cinema

http://blog.castingnetworks.com/10891/

https://emilyleong.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/marigolds-by-stephanie-zari/comment-page-1/

http://www.varsity.co.uk/reviews/3066

http://www.bestforfilm.com/film-blog/salon-des-refuses-2/

http://www.directorsnotes.com/2010/11/23/underwire-directing/

FESTIVALS

Shorts on Tap + Women in Revolt Series, 2015/16

Reel Women, Cambridge, UK, 2015

Broadcast on BBC HD Shorts February 2012

Hunger.tv, 2014

Collabor8te, 2014

Women Mujeres Spanish Film Festival 2012

BBC Filmnetwork 2011

NewFilmmakers L.A. at Gower Street Studios 2011

Cannes Court Metrage 2011

Britspotting, Berlin 2011

L.A. International Women's Film Festival, 2011

London Short Film Festival 2011

Underwire Film Festival, UK 2010 (Best Director)

3rd Branchage International Film Festival, UK 2010

30th Cambridge Film Festival, UK 2010

Lady Filmmakers Festival, L.A. 2010

ArtsFest Birmingham 2010, UK 2010

Salon des Refuses, UK

Bestival, UK 2010