A teenage girl hooking in order to make money for her mum’s much-needed medical treatment takes in a customer who used to date her mum.

This short was produced and directed by Nicholas Penrake in 2012 and features very strong performances from all the cast, especially newcomer Alexa Davies as Scarlet, the female lead.

Reception from other filmmakers to ‘Bunking Off’ has been unanimously favourable. We have to assume that it’s the subject matter and the length of the film that have worked against it on the festival circuit. That said, the short script has since grown to a poignant and hard-hitting feature-length script called ‘When The Money Runs Out’.

I was the runner and editor of the film.

Cast

Leanne Lucy Speed
Scarlet Alexa Davies
Paul Cristian Solimeno
Alexey Denis Khoroshko
Kate Eleanor Burke
Maria Jelena Budimir

Crew

Writer/Director/Producer Nicholas Penrake
Music The Angel
Editor Shiona Penrake, Nicholas Penrake