overview

Type: Short Film
Genre: Science-Fiction
Production Company: Mary Productions Ltd.
Length: 8 min
Language: English
Production Country: UK
Year: 2023
My Role: Director

logline

In a future world under strict population control, a woman is drafted in a TV lottery to have a baby but unlike her best friend, she doesn’t want the prize of motherhood.

Festivals & Awards

Winner “Best Sci-Fi/Horror Short” - London Independent Film Festival 2023
Winner “Best Sci-Fi Short” - Imagine This Women’s Film Festival 2023
Official Selection & Honorable Mention - Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival 2023
Official Selection - Flickers Vortex Film Festival 2023
Official Selection - Sci-Fi London 2023
Official Selection - Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festival
Official Selection - Alder & DUST 2023

About The Draft

All women are equal, whether they can bear children or cannot, whether they want to have children or do not.

This 7min short film uses the exciting setting of a TV lottery to address the discrimination women experience surrounding the choice of motherhood. How they can become ostracised and scorned by others who question their personal choice.

Based on personal experience from our writer Kim, the story sparks a light on a rarely addressed topic: The verbal, subconscious, hush-hush or straight out discrimination that women face around the choice of motherhood, sometimes even from the people closest to them. As a team of three women, we want to create an open-discussion around the subject.

The short film script has already won the EQUAL short film competition and has been awarded in kind support from Procam and the Farm Group. The short film has won “Best Sci-Fi short” at the London Independent Film Festival 2023, is part of the Official Selection of Sci-Fi London 2023 and will be released on WatchDust in November 2023.

KEY Team

Cast: Anke Sabrina Beerman, Leah Charles King, Eve Cong, Emelie Largier
Writer: Kim Taylor
Director
: Raphaela Wagner
Producer: Anke Sabrina Beerman
Executive Producer: Ramon Colomina
Associate Producers: Angelita Aquino, Juan Colombian, Kim Taylor
Supported in kind by: ProcamTake2, PictureShop, Garden Studios and Miashan

Cinematography: Samira Oberberg
Editing: Roberta Bononi
VFX: Aidan Lonergan, Jake Newton
Music: Sascha Blank
Costumes: Sounita Rachel Chummun
Stage Design: Michael Wagner, Anne-Héloise Dautel
Virtual Production Supervisor: Mark Pilborough-Skinner
Virtual Production Technical Artist: Liam Wedge
Location Sound: Benjamin Christ, Felix Waverley-Hudson
Sound Design: Matt Crawford, Sebastian Dressel

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