Project Detail

Notice Me

Name: Notice Me
Director: Amy Leonard
Genre: Comedy, LGBTQIA+, Romance
Duration: 18 min

A woman walking down an East London street, wearing a denim jacket, red handbag and hooped earrings.

Synopsis

When charmingly awkward Em lands in a new East London flat, freshly fired and desperate for a do-over, she’s floored by her first sighting of AJ, the impossibly cool neighbour next door. Three seconds of prolonged sapphic eye contact later, Em plunges into a full queer spiral: chaotic DIY outfits, tragic first impressions, and a mission to decode whether AJ’s eyes are flirting, or just, you know, open. Throwing herself into Hackney life, Em stumbles into Dukes Café, the beating heart of the East London queer scene. In true romcom fashion, once Em starts showing up as herself, not the manicured version she thinks AJ wants, she just might get exactly what her little dyke heart needed all along.
Official Selection BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

Details

Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 18 min
Director: Amy Leonard
Producer: Emily Sky Hickin
Executive Producer: Lena Dunham, Daisy Ifama
Editor: Courtney Marquard
Screenwriter: Jody Wiltshire
Director of Photography: Jos Bitelli
Production Designer: L’Oyin Ogunbusola
Sound: Matteo Di Cugno
Composer: Charleeeee
Principal cast: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Daisy Bevan, Amy Spalding, Elios Douglas, Chiyo Kenn Gomes
Other Lead Creative(s): Francis Ezekiel, Taali Kwaten
Casting Director: Sacha Garrett
Intimacy Coordinator: Adelaide Waldrop
Hair & Make-Up Designer: Cynthia De La Rosa
Hair & Make Up Artist: Kaleena Jordan
Hair & Make Up Artist: Emma McRae
Hair & Make Up Trainee: Keely Ridgwell
Music Supervisor: Lottie Jackson-Faulkner
Stills Photographer: Ottilie Landmark
On-set BTS Videographer: Rachelle Cox
On-set BTS Videographer: Sara Roudbari

Genre

Comedy LGBTQIA+ Romance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Pucci Productions

Emily Sky Hickin

info@pucciproductions.com

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