At nearly 70% funded, Gobby Girl Productions has opened a Greenlit Page for an independent film directed by BAFTA winning director Ruth Pickett, executive produced by Caroline Norris and written by Samantha Lyden and Teresa Burns.
This is about working class women making a warm, character-led comedy rooted in humour, heart and emotional honesty. In other words, women in comedy telling jokes they actually recognise from their own lives.
In order to engage people to support on a smaller scale, they are raising the last £14,000 to get the film into production and out into the world where it can make people laugh and hopefully feel something at the same time.
Gina Lyons, of Gobby Girl Productions says, “This film exists because women keep having to make the work they want to see themselves. Ahem. It exists because working class stories still have to shout a bit louder. Double ahem.
“And it exists because comedy with feeling should not be a radical idea.”
Gina continues:
“This is not just about making a film.
It is about backing women in comedy.
It is about backing working class voices.
It is about helping independent film get over the line without losing its soul.”
Amen to that!
If you can support the crowdfund, please share it, or casually drop it into conversation – you would be genuinely helping to bring it home. Easiest option: DONATE HERE.
