Private Project

Make a Wish

Struggling to decide whether to try for a baby with Sausage, Womb must face her fears when she encounters the Period Poo Genie.

  • Justyna Green
    Director
  • Justyna Green
    Writer
  • Justyna Green
    Producer
  • Justyna Green
    Key Cast
    "Womby"
  • James Green
    Key Cast
    "Sausage"
  • Justyna Green
    Key Cast
    "Period Poo Genie"
  • Natalie Lauren
    Supervising Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 2, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    500 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:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Electric Film Festival
    Poole
    United Kingdom
    June 20, 2025
    Audience Award
  • Power24 International Film Festival
    Durban
    South Africa
    Finalist
  • Big Fridge International Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    Semi-finalist
  • Bournemouth International Film Festival
    Bournemouth
    United Kingdom
    Finalist
Director Biography - Justyna Green

Justyna Green is a British-Polish illustrator, animator, and animation director, specializing in content that addresses women’s health and wellbeing.

Her work explores complex topics through a combination of humor and sensitivity, offering accessible narratives on difficult subjects.

In 2021, Justyna won the World Illustration Awards, and in 2023, she was awarded the Arts Council's Developing Your Creative Practice grant, recognizing her commitment to innovative storytelling.

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Director Statement

Make a Wish is a warm and surreal, comic exploration of reproductive anxiety and the pressure to have it all figured out. Through absurd humour, I wanted to capture the emotional whiplash of indecision around motherhood—how painful, and profound it can be. I hope Make a Wish helps anyone facing similar crossroads feel seen, understood, and less alone.

The film combines tactile physical sets in warm, embracing pink hues, with a bold, 2D animated Womb character, a physical stop-motion animated Sausage and a Period Poo Genie character which combines a glittery clay body with a 2D animated face.

The film's aesthetic was designed to evoke beauty, and act as a warm embrace when dealing with an often taboo subject matter. The choice of the characters was to subvert the expectation of dealing with a difficult subject, and in many ways take away the weight and power it has over people struggling with the indecision.