Lipstick
2007, 10 minutes
It's not the prize - it's winning that counts!
This tight,light comedy, set in a store cosmetics department, follows the rivalry between established, immaculate beauty consultant, Elaine,and a younger newcomer,Imogen, over the last day in a bitterly fought sales competition.Equally matched, with Imogen resembling a younger Elaine, the two adopt increasingly underhand strategies to outwit eachother, to the extent that Imogen finally locks Elaine in the storeroom.Confident of winning with this act and her charms and blatant flattery, Imogen is dumbfounded to discover Elaine has trumped her in the final minutes of the day by bringing in an enormous single order through a contact, without doing more than lifting the phone.But for Elaine it is the fight that counts, and she casually offers the prize - a weekend in Paris - to her rival, saying she cannot go.Both of them thus get what they want.