Soundtrack to Sixteen
Synopsis
Maisy is self-conscious and constantly overanalysing. She is obsessed with having her first kiss this year before she turns seventeen, but stalking the boy next door doesn’t seem to be working.
Meanwhile Ben, a boy from a nearby school, is happy being a nerd and thinking he’s better than everyone else until his grades start plummeting. For the first time he must come face to face with the idea that he might, in fact, be average.
When the two meet each other on the night bus things get even more confusing for them as they attempt to navigate their first potential romance under the stress of exams that will define their future.
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 83 min
- Director
-
Hillary Shakespeare 1st Feature
- Producer
- Hillary Shakespeare, Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Ben Jacques
- Editor
- Ben Whitehead, Richard Blackburn, Hillary Shakespeare
- Screenwriter
- Hillary Shakespeare, Ana-Elizabeth Shakespeare
- Director of Photography
- Bradley Dennis
- Sound
- Matthew McCabe
- Composer
- Original Score by Patrick Savage and Holeg Spies
- Principal cast
- Gino Wilson, Scarlett Marshall
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Shakespeare Sisters, Tanglewood Films, Fiction Films
Sales Company
Evolutionary Films
3 Mills StudiosThree Mill Lane
London E3 3DU
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