“Don't Forget To Go Home” by Victoria Singh-Thompson
Two Fiji-Indian sisters miss their cousin's wedding to go to a rave, looking for love in all the wrong embraces.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
“I remember those nights where I first discovered dance music and drugs. The power of a deep red lipstick and the lure of the city lights. I remember looking for love in all the wrong embraces. I didn't know what it meant to be hurt until I was. And yet the mistakes, the heartbreak and the pain is what made me feel alive. It made me feel grown-up. My cousins and I struggled with an identity torn between worlds. Who we were inside the house differed from who we were outside of it and our hearts ached because of it.
This film is about you when you're young and feel a whole heap of complex feelings you don't quite understand. You act on things that are still forming. When the night feels full of possibilities and yet you go home alone with a disappointment that reaches deep into the lining of your stomach.
As the characters are driven by emotions and desires so is the film itself, embodied by the visual language and sound. We literally show the internal landscape of our protagonist Aasha as she goes through her night.
This is one of the first stories of the Fijian-Indian diaspora to be told on our screens. I could not be more excited about bringing this story to life.”
-Victoria Singh-Thompson
CREDITS
Starring
Monica Kumar, Remanika Chaunhry, Nadia Zwecker and Joshua McElroy
Writer & Director // Victoria Singh-Thompson
Producers // Lottie Aspinall & Linus Carey Gibson
EPs // Take Two Productions, Sweetshop Films
DOP // Lucca Barone-Peters
Art Director // Aaron Healey
Hair & Makeup // Jade Diaz
First AD // Lillian Paterson
Sound Recordist // Oliver Brighton
Gaffer // Tommy Keyes & Mat Wilson
Lighting Assistant // James Bartlett
Key Grip // Jimmy Lucini
1st AC // Vanya Nedic, Claire Harmer
2nd ACs // Viv Duong, Rachel Gammel
Video Spilt // Alyssa Montgomery
Art Department Assist // Annemie Iles
Runners // Samantha Tomkinson, Jess Tames & Kit Croker
Intimacy Coordinator // Leah Pell
Unit Manager // Mars Abangan
Catering // Roshni Thompson
Stills Photographer // Harri Sharp
Editor // Trent Mitchell
Sound Designer // Georgia Collins
Composer // Fabrics
Grader // Lucca Barone-Peters
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