Girl on Girl
Director：Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Screenwriter：Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Cast：Gloria Obianyo, Shaniqua Okwok
Producer：Chloe Culpin, Katie Sinclair
Cinematographer：Ebba Hult
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Language：English
Production Company：Cool-Pin、Tannahill
SYNOPSIS
On move-in day, a lesbian couple is forced to acknowledge that the problems between them don’t just exist in the bedroom. Funded by BFI Network, this film is from BAFTA-nominee Laura Jayne Tunbridge.
Director Biography
Laura Jayne Tunbridge is a BAFTA nominated writer, and a director from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, UK. Her work includes Night of the Living Dread, which was the winner of an Annie Award, nominated for a British Independent Film Award and also nominated for a BAFTA. Other Half, which was selected for competition as part of la Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 and won Best Animated Short Film at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. And Requiem, starring Bella Ramsey, was selected for the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Manchester International Film Festival. Laura wrote and directed Dragged Up, starring Gaby French and Donna Air. The short has played at numerous festivals in the UK and was nominated for Best British Short at the Iris Prize. Laura was selected as one of six directors to take part in Disney’s inaugural short film incubator scheme Star Imagine UK where she directed Nights, which premiered at the London Film Festival. Laura also wrote episode four of Sweetpea, starring Ella Purnell, for Sky Atlantic in the UK and Starz in the US.
Director's Statement
Growing up on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, England, I felt a deep sense of expectation from the people around me as to what was considered “normal.” To be openly queer was not normal and as such I stayed in the closet too long. Coming out was a long overdue liberation. The idea of claiming your personhood in the face of likely rejection, is something I explored in the first short I directed. Dragged Up was inspired by my childhood experience, but the film’s protagonist, Sarah, is far braver than I ever was at sixteen. She goes on the teenage journey of self-discovery that I couldn’t. Girl on Girl is a natural successor to Dragged Up. Thematically it navigates similar territory, finds playful ways of looking at secret worlds and posits that speaking your truth is vital. However, Girl on Girl is the grown up, older sister who understands that life is complicated and that there are no straightforward answers. It’s a film that embraces the complexity of intimate relationships, wades through the murkiness of speaking the unspeakable and accepts that pain is sometimes the only path to growth. Ultimately, Girl on Girl is a film rooted in growth. Growth for the characters as they find the courage to confront rather than avoid, but also growth for myself as a filmmaker.
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