Project Detail

The Draft

Mary Productions ltd

Synopsis

In a future world under strict population control, a strong, independent, fertile Kate is drafted to have a baby. Unlike her best friend Jessica, Kate doesn’t want to be a mother and suffers. Her personal choice is taken away at each step and when she wants to gift her opportunity away to Jessica, she cannot because her fertility is a commodity and the presumed fairness of a lottery is society’s way of maintaining equality and exerting control. While the two best friends are ripped apart, unable to follow their dreams, they succeed in awakening the audience and reveal the faults in the system.

THE DRAFT is meant to evoke a debate around the lacking freedom of choice women still face today. A woman should have complete control over her body but we can be scorned for not doing what others - and society - consider to be our duty, our purpose as women. This film is about what can happen when our right to be childfree by choice is taken from us. Equality demands that we as women and men respect each other’s individuality and choices, whether that’s becoming a mother or not.

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Details

Year: 2022
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 8 min 1 sec
Director: Raphaela Wagner
Producer: Anke Sabrina Beermann
Executive Producer: Ramon Colomina
Editor: Roberta Bononi
Screenwriter: Kim Taylor
Director of Photography: Samira Oberberg
Sound: Benjamin Christ
Music: Sascha Blank
Principal cast: Anke Sabrina Beermann, Leah Charles King, Eve Cong, Emilie Largier
Dresses Designed and Provided by: Sounita Rachel Chummun-Miashan
Associate Producer: Angelita Aquino, Juan Colomina, Kim Taylor
Production Manager: Laura Gregory
Creative Consultant: Hasko Sadrina
1st AD: Jane Davis
Script Supervisor: Lefteris Parasyris

Genre

Horror Human Rights Woman Director Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Mary Productions Ltd

14 School Lane
Wargrave
RG10 8AA

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