Benefited

Directed By Clare McCann

A pregnant woman, a teenage thief, and man with a violent past must try to survive in the situations they find themselves in.

  • ABOUT
  • BIO
Dity has just found out she is pregnant but to a past abusive lover. Will is only 15 years old but is learning to break into homes. Ray struggles to overcome his violent past to become a father. Each must fight to just survive somehow. 
Clare McCann is an international multi-award-winning Actor, Writer, Director, Producer and Designer. Her debut feature, Benefited, was official selection at SIIF, SCIFF, and AFA, to name a few, and has won her string of awards including Best Feature Script, Best Director, Best 1st Time Director, Best Actress, and an Unstoppable Creator award. Her first fully written, produced, directed, and designed short film, Mirror Girl, garnered her Official Selection and a Best Performance nomination at the Sci-Fi Film Festival. Clare also created the concept for the highly successful FOXTEL series Clublife. Clare is also known for her appointment as Creative Director at Sydney’s The Star casino where she fully developed and directed hundreds of productions from music videos, cabarets, commercials to music shows. Clare worked for a numbers of years as a drama, voice and movement tutor at NIDA and launched the City of Sydney supported Sydney Women’s International Film Festival.