You’re meant to like them
13-19 students wished to make a film about how family breakdown affects young people as nearly all of them had personal experience of this. They felt that coping with this experience was putting enormous pressure on their lives. Many were left caring for siblings, supporting their parents through difficult times and struggling to deal with their own relationships when home life was stressful.
They had a strong desire to turn this negative into something creative and positive. They wanted to make a film that would express these concerns and allow others to share their experiences, feel less alone and reveal the diverse circumstances of modern families. The young people undertook every aspect of the shoot with support from the PVA MediaLab team.
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