Prangover
Boy meets Girl but with no dialogue or contraception
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Celine BuckensDirector
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Celine BuckensWriter
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Tasha DuursmaDirector of PhotographyMilk & Honey (Short Film by Devon Kuziw), Titan (Short Film by Chris Taylor)
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Lily DonnellyProducerRebecca (2020) - Producer's assistant, Emma (2020) - Producer's assistant, The High Note (2020) - Producer's assistant, Radioactive (2020) - Producer's assistant, Yesterday (2019) - Producer's assistant
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Izzy EndacottAssistant Producer
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Rachael PhilipOriginal Music
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Nell WilliamsKey Cast"Girl"
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Rawaed AsdeKey Cast"Boy"
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Lily DonnellyKey Cast"Pharmacist"
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Lesley HiltonKey Cast"Lucky Customer"
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Celine BuckensKey Cast"Winking Girl "
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Madeleine MacGreevyKey Cast"Girl In Love"
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Arthur StudholmeKey Cast"Boy In Love "
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Lily SoedeProduction Designer
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Celine BuckensEditor
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Lucy HutchcraftCostume
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Nicole MiltonMakeup
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Deimante SprainaityteGaffer
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Yasmin Tippett1st AD
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Dominika Besinska1st AC
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Frankie Cilia2nd AC
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Lauryn Harrison- WoodhouseGraphics
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Lucrezie PolliceColour
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Sam MacdonaldSound
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Daisy PatisRunner
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Comedy
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Runtime:5 minutes 48 seconds
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Completion Date:February 25, 2021
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Production Budget:5,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:2k
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
Celine Buckens is a Belgian-British actress and aspiring writer/director. Past onscreen credits include Warrior for Cinemax, Free Rein and Bridgerton for Netflix, and War Horse for Dreamworks. This is her first time behind the camera.
Fierce on the outside, flailing on the inside - Girl's story speaks to a widespread female experience that has hardly ever been represented on screen. 21 days is an excruciatingly long period to wait for a reliable pregnancy test, especially considering the stakes are a possible unwanted child or a termination.
The idea was conceived (ha ha) after realising that men just don’t experience post-sex scares like women do. The story lies on the periphery of the narrative space that has exploded since the social reckoning of #MeToo, but this is not a tale of abuse. The sex, though unprotected, is consensual. Yet the experience, from the onus on women to be on contraception, to the financial burden of the morning-after pill, to the possibility of carrying another life, is undoubtedly gendered.
These grey areas of sex that is awkward but not traumatic, distressing but not criminal, in some ways cataclysmic but in others mundane, are deserving of screen-time and exploration.
Crucially, Boy is not a villain - but he's totally ignorant of the rigmarole Girl goes through. This ignorance is reflected in most men (who aren't exposed to this side of casual relations), which is why this film feels somewhat urgent.
We’ve made it with a female crew both because of the subject matter and to counterbalance the usually male-dominated crews in the industry.