“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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