Project Detail

Soundtrack to Sixteen

Synopsis

Soundtrack to Sixteen is a coming-of-age film about two anxious teens growing up in London in the 2000s.

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

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Shakespeare Sisters, Tanglewood Films, Fiction Films

Sales Company

Evolutionary Films

3 Mills Studios
Three Mill Lane
London E3 3DU

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