Project Detail

Join My Band

Synopsis

Join My Band is a short film about a boy who starts a band to get a girl. Set in inner city London, Steve, a nerdy schoolboy, falls in love with rebellious rock-chic Stella. Oblivious to his feelings, Steve transforms his image, forming a punk-rock band with his friends. However, despite appearances, Stella isn't quite what she seems.

Details

Year: 2011
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 15 mins 29 secs
Director: Naomi Wright
Producer: Stephen Follows
Editor: Graham Taylor
Screenwriter: Naomi Wright
Director of Photography: Jonathan Bloom
Production Designer: Sarah Bick
Sound: Peregrine Andrews
Composer: Lucinda Belle
Principal cast: Jessie Buckley, Max Fowler

Genre

Music Woman Director Comedy Drama Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

E: naomi@naomiwright.com

W: www.joinmybandthemovie.com

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Set in the summer of 2000, 14 year old Lucian explores his sexuality through fantasy in a pre-internet world. Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

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