Girls Night (2022) is a short film exploring the psychological fear and anxiety of walking home alone at night.
Girls Night is currently being entered into festivals and has been selected for the Women's Lens International Short Film Festival, Southport International Short Film Festival, and FilmedUp.
Writer and director - Lorna Brierly
Producer - Ffion Mckee-Hearne
Director of Photography - Lorraine Ouyang
Production Designer - Bethan Greenhough
Production Sound Mixer - Jiaxun Cheng
Editors - Lorna Brierly and Ffion Mckee-Hearne
The idea of Girls Night was brought about through hearing many friends’ experiences of walking home alone at night as well as our own. Women’s safety at night is an important issue and we feel more awareness needs to be raised around it. Whilst there are not currently many solutions to the problem of females feeling unsafe at night it is important to continue raising awareness of it to make sure that people are still thinking about how to address this issue. We chose to make a film on this topic as it is a different way of showing this issue. It is meant to immerse the audience inside the main character’s head and feel the anxiety and worry that she feels. There is always the constant worry and fear that something will happen when walking home alone at night.
From the script to the final edit the film took about two months to complete, but the filming itself was done across four evenings and involved travelling out to Morecambe bus depot and roaming the streets of Lancaster. We may have got very cold, wet and lost at points, but it was worth it!
As well as the film being about a feminist issue, all the main crew are females: the director, producer, director of photography, production designer, production sound mixer, and editors. We are all second-year university students studying in a variety of departments. Our cast and other crew members also consisted of mainly second-year students and we all pulled together to create Girls Night. We hope we’ve helped to raise awareness of a social issue which affects so many women across the country and the world.
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