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Expanding ‘the Canon of Film on Female Sexuality’
Amber Sealey began writing “How Does It Start” after discovering her diaries from center college. The diary entries chronicled one of many many awkward levels of puberty — the tween years when crushes start to bloom and hormones start to rage. Sealey realized that she hadn’t seen very many portrayals of this developmental stage in women on display.
“I feel like there are a lot of films where there are boys aged 10, 11, 12 who are masturbating or spying on girls or interested in sex, and it’s normal and natural. We don’t have that same thing for young girls,” Sealey informed TheWrap. “I got interested in the idea of making this film as a missing chapter in the canon of film on female sexuality.”
Sealey’s quick, a finalist in TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival, follows a seventh-grade woman in 1983 attempting to determine methods to get a boyfriend and perceive her sexual urges.
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She reads age-inappropriate self-help books, experiments with kissing a pal and watches her classmates’ budding relationships rigorously. While the script isn’t totally based mostly on Sealey’s life, most of the predominant character’s diary entries are.
“Some of them are lifted, verbatim, from my own diaries when I was like 11,” mentioned Sealey, who plans to broaden the 16-minute quick right into a characteristic movie with the identical predominant character and theme.
“I hope it makes people think about the experience of female sexuality and how we have portrayed it so far on screen. There are so many other new and more nuanced ways that we can portray it,” Sealey mentioned.
Watch the movie above. Viewers may display the movies at any time through the pageant at Shortlistfilmfestival.com and vote by means of Aug. 21.
From ‘Sixteen Candles’ to ‘Eighth Grade’: 17 Cringeworthy Moments From Coming-of-Age Movies (Photos)
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Bo Burnham’s debut movie “Eighth Grade” is getting reward for its practical and touching portrayal of rising up right now. It builds on a protracted line of flicks that cope with the awkwardness of coming of age. Here are 17 of them.
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The Graduate (1967)
In this basic from director Mike Nichols, Benjamin Braddock (breakout star Dustin Hoffman) has quite a lot of cringeworthy moments with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), together with one the place he utters the well-known line: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?”
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
This raunchy comedy took on teenage sexuality and an entire lot extra. In one cringeworthy scene, Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) affords Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold) a five-point plan for getting with a lady. The plan goes as follows: (1) “You never let on how much you like a girl,” (2) “you always call the shots,” (3) “act like wherever you are, that’s the place to be,” (4) “whenever you order something, find out what she wants and order it for both of you,” and (5) “when it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on Side 1 of Led Zeppelin 4.”
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Sixteen Candles (1984)
In the earliest of John Hughes’ iconic teen films, Samantha (Molly Ringwald) pines after older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling) and avoids nerdy Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), whereas her sixteenth birthday will get overshadowed by her older sister’s upcoming marriage. In one cringeworthy scene, Ted accosts Samantha on the dance ground and begins dancing in entrance of her. Samantha runs away to cry, and he is left awkwardly dancing by himself.
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