Forever Young

This is the story of an ambitious scientist as she brings her own revolutionary beauty product to the market, but it's not your every day treatment. The results are spectacular but the cost is high.

  • Evy Barry
    Director
    Winged Warriors, Exposure
  • Jennifer Aries
    Writer
  • Evy Barry
    Writer
  • Jonathan Hateley
    Producer
  • Hannah Isherwood
    Key Cast
    "Dr Stephanie Burt"
  • Barbara D'Alterio
    Key Cast
    "Sam"
    Hollyoaks, In The Long Run
  • Jennifer Aries
    Key Cast
    "Thea"
    The Tunnel, Ripper St, Dead Set, Call The Midwife
  • John Jesper
    Key Cast
    "Pete"
  • Carmen Adie
    Key Cast
    "Beth"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Drama
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 7, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Evy Barry

Evy Barry is a Writer-Director of drama and documentaries in film and television. She is passionate about making character-driven films that are as cinematic as they are human.

Her short dramas have screened at numerous international film festivals and her first, a period fantasy called Winged Warriors won a rising star award at the Canada International Film Festival and an honourable mention at the Kino Manchester International FF behind Oscar winner Stutterer. Her latest project, Exposure, a character driven family drama has been nominated for an award at Carmarthen Bay (BAFTA cymru qualifying) festival and won Best Actress and an Award for Excellence at the One Reeler short film competition and an Award for Excellence at the Global shorts competition. Her other short, an urban fairy tale called Match was nominated for Best Editing at Southampton International FF and Best Supporting Actress and Best Score at Portsmouth International FF.

Evy is currently also involved in an emerging theatre directors club and has directed plays at the Southwark Playhouse, the Old Red Lion, The Space, N16 and The Pleasance Theatre.

In her career making ground breaking TV documentaries Evy has also been nominated for an Indie award twice for her human-interest stories.

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Director Statement

The small number of roles for pregnant women is partly responsible for this film! Jennifer Aries, an actress I know, approached me with a script. She has been involved in some high profile projects like The Tunnel, Ripper Street and BAFTA winning Call The Midwife but had written a role for herself to film while pregnant with her second baby. Also pregnant in the script and for real was Hannah who plays Stephanie the ambitious scientist. This put an interesting pressure on production! We had to shoot in September or not at all. I had never experienced this kind of hormonal bottleneck before!

If this project doesn't pass the Bechdel test I would be amazed. Three lead actresses - two pregnant, one heavily and some of the HODS not pregnant but female! A 1st AD and wholly female wardrobe and Make Up departments.

I really liked the idea behind this script inspired as it was by some of the ways that Hollywood stars stay so incredibly young looking. What would happen if we could get our hands on this kind of treatment, would we go for it no matter what the consequences are? The script asks some interesting questions about what is ethical and how far will someone go in pursuit of perfection?

It was a pleasure to come up with a strong aesthetic for how this should look which began in a colour coded wardrobe, to set dressing and how they complemented each other and finished off in the grade. For me only these kind of production values went hand in hand with a story about staying forever young.