Florence rescues a stray cat from a gang of teenagers, but after taking the feline to an isolated building, her true intentions emerge. What quickly escalates is a high-octane all claws bared battle to the death.

We got the lowdown on exciting new Australian short Violent Florence from producer, Katia Nizic. The film is written and directed by Jaime Snyder and is crowfunding right now! Katia is a recent AFTRS graduate and a film reviewer at The 500 Club. She’s based in Brisbane.

LEFT: Lead actress, Charly Thorn. RIGHT: Puppet cat-in-progress, Karen Black.

Can you talk about ‘Karen Black’ and Rachel Echols’ work in puppetry and makeup FX?

Karen Black is our puppet cat, but actually - there’ll be three of her. The level of detail needs to be different for each type of action we’re doing, so we have Wrestle Karen, Soft Karen (to attach to our lead actress’ head), and Action Karen.
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