Prawn | The Innocence of a Girl’s First Kiss Is Crushed by a Shameless Boy | Drama Short Film

During her first term back at high school, Eliza is on the delirious brink of her first kiss. But a brazen boy crushes her innocence.
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Prawn by Ella Carey
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"The initial concept for the film was inspired by my own first kiss experience. I was 15 at the time. It wasn’t until I was in my late twenties that I realised it was inappropriate and unwanted and how much it had impacted me and my understanding of sex and romantic relationships. Up until this point I had never really considered it as a non-consensual thing…teenagehood is so sticky and murky. I was protected in my childhood by my parents and in my twenties I knew what my boundaries were and right from wrong - I had confidence and an understanding by then. But in my teen years, it was so difficult to navigate consent. So at the point I knew I wanted to make a film about consent and I felt like the most simple iteration of that memory was the best way to do it. I wanted to engage an audience that had experienced those same feelings of shame and guilt in similar situations, on both sides of an incident like that. I am obsessed with teenage perspective focused content and stories, it’s such a devastating and heartbreaking time in our lives. Everything is so heightened and extreme, we just struggle so much with identity. I really wanted to capture that crippling theft of innocence that so many of us have experienced in a zoo-like high-school setting."
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// Credits //
Written & Directed by ELLA CAREY
Starring CECILIA KARLOVIC, ABI WILLIAMS, ROSE KAVANAGH
Produced by ISABELLE LOVE-DACK, GRACE CAREY & CAITLIN SPILLER
Co Written by FRANCESCA CAREY
Cinematography by JOEY KNOX
Edited by CAITLIN SPILLER
Production & Costume Design by FRANCSCA CAREY
Music by SIMON PORTER
Sound Design by HARESH PATEL
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