Project Detail

Pin Cushion

Synopsis

Super close Mother LYN and daughter IONA (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with KEELY, STACEY and CHELSEA. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with BELINDA, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival Critics' Week 2017 - Opening Night Gala - World premiere
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

Details

Year: 2017
Type of film: Features
Running time: 85 mins
Director: Deborah Haywood 1st Feature
Producer: Gavin Humphries, Maggie Monteith
Executive Producer: Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, Lizzie Francke
Screenwriter: Deborah Haywood
Director of Photography: Nicola Daley
Production Designer: Francesca Massariol
Music: Natalie Holt
Principal cast: Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan, Loris Scarpa, Sacha Cordy-Nice, Bethany Antonia

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Pin Cushion Film Company (UK) film produced with support from iFeatures2 (Creative England) (UK), BFI (UK), Rosevine Films (UK), Dignity Film Finance (US)

Pin Cushion Film Company

c/o Quark Films
Gavin Humphries
10 Denmark Street
London
WC2H 8LS

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Stray Dogs

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France

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