Project Detail

How to Have Sex

Synopsis

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Features
Running time
98 min
Director
Molly Manning Walker 1st Feature
Producer
Konstantinos Kontrovrakis, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon
Executive Producer
Farhana Bhula, Ben Coren, Phil Hunt, Kristin Irving, Fionnuala Jamison, Nathanaël Karmitz, Giorgos Karnavas, Compton Ross
Editor
Fin Oates
Screenwriter
Molly Manning Walker
Director of Photography
Nicolas Canniccioni
Production Designer
Luke Moran-Morris
Sound
Steve Fanagan
Composer
James Jacob
Principal cast
Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Daisy Jelley, Eilidh Loan, Shaun Thomas, Sam Bottomley, Enva Lewis

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

UK, Greece co-production

A Wild Swim Films (UK), Heretic (GR), UMedia (BE) production supported by BFI (UK), Film4 (UK), MK2 Films (FR)

Wild Swim Films

Bussey Building
133 Rye Lane
London
SE15 4UN

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