FULL FAT
The Story.
Grace and Bels live together, do everything together, have slept together – but Grace is queer, and Bels is not, so when faced with Bels’s new boyfriend, how long before she just loses it.
One morning, aware of a new presence in the flat, Grace is cursed with echoes of that fateful night. As she attempts to get on with her morning, she can only hear the giggles and whisperings of new love. She’s close to breaking point when faced with Bels’s new boyfriend.
Louisa Connolly-Burnham, award-winning director of SISTER WIVES, is attached to direct.
FULL FAT is currently in pre-production.
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Why this story?
FULL FAT addresses a deeply common yet underrepresented phenomenon in the queer community. Time and again, we have witnessed queer friends being treated as a means of “exploration” by their straight friends—a dynamic that is rarely, if ever, portrayed on screen. While the embrace of sexual fluidity is growing and rightly celebrated, the lack of clear boundaries and language around these interactions often leads to unintended harm. This film seeks to shine a light on those complexities and the emotional fallout they can create.
Acclaim for the Script.
FULL FAT has won Best Screenplay at both the Los Angeles Short Film Award and London Best Script Awards, with additional recognition including selections and nominations at top festivals such as Santa Barbara, Berlin, New York, and Chicago, and a semi-finalist placement at the London International Screenwriting Competition.
Cast Announcement.
Halo’s Olive Gray and Fantastic Beasts’ Cara Mahoney lead alongside BAFTA-winning Bobby Lockwood as the headline cast of FULL FAT.
Read DIVA’s press release here.
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Meet the Team
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Louisa Connolly-Burnham (Thimble Films)
(she/her)
DIRECTER & CO-PRODUCER
Award-winning writer-director-actress. Louisa’s breakout short film, SISTER WIVES, starring Mia McKenna Bruce (How to Have Sex), has won over 50 awards at more than 100 international festival and was long-listed for the Oscars, BAFTAs and BIFAs.
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Cara Mahoney
(she/her)
WRITER, CO-PRODUCER & CAST
London-based actor, filmmaker and founder of Yonic Productions. Cara’s short, FISH, premiered at this year's BFI Flare and has since screened at HollyShorts Comedy, among others. Her second short MOLE has been programmed at several festivals, including the BIFA-qualifying Women X.
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Annabelle Dodd
(she/her)
PRODUCER
Annabelle’s debut short, A DAY IN JUNE (in association with the Alzheimer’s Society) won Emerging Talent at Beeston and continues its BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying run. She’s now working on a feature at Flyer Films and has been assisting on an upcoming (undisclosed) HETV drama.
