Project Detail

BabyDolls

Synopsis

Unable to accept his ex Jess's departure, Billy finds a website that allows him to design a sexbot in her image.
A dark comedy that looks at fragile masculinity masked within alpha male bravado, paced to an original score and told through spoken word.

Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 10 min
Format: Digital
Director: Calvin Demba
Producer: Pauline Glomaud-Murmann, Alice Raymond
Executive Producer: Pauline Glomaud-Murmann, Alice Raymond, Calvin Demba, Sabine Schenk, Anja Murmann, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor (BFI)
Editor: Gonçalo Sá Correia
Screenwriter: Calvin Demba
Director of Photography: Charlie Jenkins
Production Designer: Lily Soede
Sound: Dominika Latusek
Composer: Aiden “SK!TZ Beatz” Hogarth
Principal cast: Frankie Wilson, Saffron Hocking, Louisa Harland

Genre

Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Alice Raymond

Pauline Glomaud-Murmann

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