Location: England; Language: English; Captions: English

After her family falls on hard times, Elizabeth starts styling her classmates' hair at break time to earn money. As the wider world bleeds into their understanding of their place within it, classroom politics and tensions come to a head in a teenage friendship close to sisterhood that starts to show cracks.

Friends Tobi, Nana and Elizabeth reckon with lessons they teach each other, as they seek to understand themselves. A sensitive and intimate portrait of South London girlhood, and how beauty culture as well as race and gender politics get discussed in chaotic adolescence.

This project was made in 2020 as part of New Creatives scheme and was supported by Arts Council England, BBC Arts, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and Dazed.

Credits

Writer and Director - Dubheasa Lanipekun

Cast

Tobi - Nevaeh West-Lawson

Nana - Mariam Bangura

Eliz - Thalia Gambe

Producer - Tobi Kyeremateng, Ias Balaskas

Executive Producer for Dazed - Bec Evans

Commissioning Exec for BBC - Stephen James-Yeoman

Director of Photography - Tristan Chenais

Production Designer - Anthony Neale

Editor - Carina Etae

Sound Design - Rui Da Silva

Colourist - John Alexander Lowe

Music

“Mazza” by Lex Amor

“341 (Freestyle)” by Lex Amor

Casting Director - Stephanie Okoye, Girls Like Us

First Assistant Camera - Hermes Contreras

Second Assistant Camera - Luke Priadi

Camera Trainee - Izabella Camille

Sound Operator - Daniel Rosen

Boom Operator - Brooks Warner-James

Gaffer - Ali Celis

Spark - Guillem Zamora

Art Department - Joseph Taylor, Michael Appleby

Script Editor - Rachael Simões 

Script Supervisor - Caroline Wilson

Hair Stylist - Anoushka Danielle

Makeup Artist - Tabna Ghazal

COVID-19 Supervisor - Ela Kotze

With special thanks to:

Laura Scrivano, Alex Lanipekun, Dorothea Gibbs, Marcus McSweeney and Brad Finlay from Third Channel, Nikta Mohammadi, Bea Redweik from the ICA, Sonji Clarke and Aarti Mahtani from Cinelab, SHL Lighthting, Acland Burghley School, Angry Black Kitchen

New Creatives is supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts.

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