Girl on Girl

搬家当天，一对女同性恋情侣被迫承认，她们的问题已不止限于卧室。该短片由英国电影学院奖提名导演劳拉·杰恩·坦布里奇创作，并获得英国电影协会网络赞助。

On move-in day, a lesbian couple is forced to acknowledge that the problems between them don’t just exist in the bedroom. Funded by BFI Network, this film is from BAFTA-nominee Laura Jayne Tunbridge.

导演：劳拉·杰恩·坦布里奇
编剧：劳拉·杰恩·坦布里奇
主演：格洛丽亚·奥比安约、沙尼阔·奥克沃克
制片人：克洛伊·库平、凯蒂·辛克莱尔
摄影：埃巴·霍特
类型：短片
时长：10分钟
完成时间：2023年
对白语言：英语
地区：英国
制片公司：Cool-Pin、Tannahill

Director: Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Screenwriter: Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Cast: Gloria Obianyo, Shaniqua Okwok
Producer: Chloe Culpin, Katie Sinclair
Cinematographer: Ebba Hult
Genre: Short drama
Length: 10 min
Year: 2023
Dialogue: English
Region: UK
Production Company: Cool-Pin, Tannahill

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劳拉（Laura Jayne Tunbridge）是一名来自英国肯特郡谢佩岛的编剧和导演，，曾获英国电影学院奖提名。她的作品包括斩获安妮奖的动画短片《活死人之夜》（Night of the Living Dread），该片也收获了英国独立电影奖提名和英国电影学院奖提名；动画短片《另一半》（Other Half）则成功入围2021年戛纳电影节的电影基金会竞赛单元，并在著名的锡切斯电影节上一举拿下最佳动画短片奖；由贝拉·拉姆齐（Bella Ramsey）主演的短片《安魂曲》（Requiem）入选克利夫兰国际电影节和曼彻斯特国际电影节；由劳拉编剧并执导的短片《我型我塑》（Dragged Up），由加比·弗兰奇（Gaby French）和唐娜·艾尔（Donna Air）主演，曾在英国的众多电影节上放映，并获得虹膜奖的最佳英国短片提名。劳拉还被迪士尼选为参加其首届短片孵化计划“英国星幻想”的六位导演之一，她为此执导的影片《夜晚》（Nights）在伦敦电影节首映。另外，劳拉为英国天空电视台和美国星光电视台创作了《甜豌豆》（Sweetpea）第四集，该剧由艾拉·珀内尔（Ella Purnell）担任主演。

Laura Jayne Tunbridge is a BAFTA nominated writer, and a director from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, UK. Her work includes Night of the Living Dread, which was the winner of an Annie Award, nominated for a British Independent Film Award and also nominated for a BAFTA. Other Half, which was selected for competition as part of la Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 and won Best Animated Short Film at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. And Requiem, starring Bella Ramsey, was selected for the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Manchester International Film Festival. Laura wrote and directed Dragged Up, starring Gaby French and Donna Air. The short has played at numerous festivals in the UK and was nominated for Best British Short at the Iris Prize. Laura was selected as one of six directors to take part in Disney’s inaugural short film incubator scheme Star Imagine UK where she directed Nights, which premiered at the London Film Festival. Laura also wrote episode four of Sweetpea, starring Ella Purnell, for Sky Atlantic in the UK and Starz in the US.

我在英格兰肯特郡的谢佩岛上长大，我深感周围的人们对“正常”的期待。公开自己的酷儿身份并不正常，因此我一直不敢出柜。对我而言，出柜是一次迟来的解放。

在我执导的首部短片中，我探讨了在可能遭遇拒绝的情况下，如何坚持自己的人格立场。《我型我塑》的灵感来源于我的童年经历，但是电影的主角莎拉比我自己16岁时要勇敢得多。她在青少年时就开始了自我发现之旅，这是我无缘体验的经历。

《女孩之于女孩》是《我型我塑》的自然延续。从主题上讲，它探索了相似的领域，以逗趣般的方式看待秘密世界，并认为表达真实的自我非常重要。然而它更为成熟，它像是懂得了生活复杂性的大姐姐，知道世上没有简单的答案。这部影片涵盖了亲密关系的复杂性；深入探索了在谈论那些不可言说的禁忌话题时，可能遇到的复杂而模糊的境地；同时它承认，痛苦有时是成长的唯一途径。

归根结底，《女孩之于女孩》是一部以“成长”为主题的电影。角色们不再逃避，找到了直面的勇气并得以成长，对于作为电影制作人的我来说也是如此。

Growing up on the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, England, I felt a deep sense of expectation from the people around me as to what was considered “normal.” To be openly queer was not normal and as such I stayed in the closet too long. Coming out was a long overdue liberation.

The idea of claiming your personhood in the face of likely rejection, is something I explored in the first short I directed. Dragged Up was inspired by my childhood experience, but the film’s protagonist, Sarah, is far braver than I ever was at sixteen. She goes on the teenage journey of self-discovery that I couldn’t.

Girl on Girl is a natural successor to Dragged Up. Thematically it navigates similar territory, finds playful ways of looking at secret worlds and posits that speaking your truth is vital. However, Girl on Girl is the grown up, older sister who understands that life is complicated and that there are no straightforward answers. It’s a film that embraces the complexity of intimate relationships, wades through the murkiness of speaking the unspeakable and accepts that pain is sometimes the only path to growth.

Ultimately, Girl on Girl is a film rooted in growth. Growth for the characters as they find the courage to confront rather than avoid, but also growth for myself as a filmmaker.