Meet Ava Bounds, a Raising Star in Filmmaking!

Ava is just 15 years old and she is the winner of the The Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts Youth Narrative 2021 and she was shortlisted for IMDb New Filmmaker 2020. She is a multi talented actor, musician and artist, She began her performance career aged 12, working with Sam Mendes in his West End hit The Ferryman. Often working from creative mind-pops, Ava is a natural advocate of the Theatre of Cruelty, as she loves nothing more than to startle her audience’s senses with light, sound, dreamlike sequences and shocking endings.

At A-FilmTeensFest, we present her film Hello Frisco.

"The concept of 'Hello Frisco' came to me as I was thinking about what FUN it could be coming out of Covid Lockdown. 2020/2021 was a long, dark year and I thought 'What the hell', I'll take this absurd idea, grab some actors and shoot it in one day. And it worked. I hope you enjoy watching as much as we enjoyed making this film.", says the author Ava Bounds.

This film is a playful, surreal road that pits four teens against the elements in a race against time. Why was the baby abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its life? You will know the answer soon!

18.10.2021 • Festival program »