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Over one transformative summer in rural New Zealand in 2006, 14-year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity, and the internet as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by.
+ MoreOver one transformative summer in rural New Zealand in 2006, 14-year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity, and the internet as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by.
Paloma Schneideman, mentored through Jane Campion’s film program, crafts an artful coming-of-age portrait of queer adolescence that beautifully inhabits the liminal space between youth and adulthood, desire and experience — a time when we’re conscious of everything, but lacking language for any of it. With aching recognition, we’re inescapably drawn into Sid (newcomer Ani Palmer in a stellar breakout performance) — her trying on of identities, mimicry, feigning of maturity, shame, and longing for acceptance — as she endears herself to a group of older teens, the first generation for whom sexual curiosity is entwined with the internet. Schneideman’s voice is fresh and vibrant, her intimate, shallow-focus photography drawn to faces and bodies, full of precarity and vulnerability and perfectly attuned to these young people. The film breathes with specificity and authenticity, ironically rendering so sharply an interior life that is, by its nature, so obscure. — JN
This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.
Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1).
Paloma Schneideman
Paloma Schneideman
Vicky Pope
Thomas Coppell
Jane Campion
Philippa Campbell
David Ross
Lisa Gutberlet
James Huntsman
Noah Taylor
Rain Spencer
Maria Inés Manchego
Chia Chi Hsu
Cushla Dillon
Sarah Cooper
Karen Inderbitzen-Waller
James Hayday
Cam Ballantyne
Aminé Ramer
Nikki Barrett
Kate McGill
Tina Cleary
Ani Palmer
Rain Spencer
Noah Taylor
POP Film
Lisa Gutberlet
Lisa@bluefoxentertainment.com
+13109755026
Paloma Schneideman is a filmmaker and musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her work examines the human condition, often through a queer and/or female lens, blending sharp cultural observation with emotional nuance. Schneideman is an alum of Jane Campion’s A Wave In the Ocean program; Big Girls Don’t Cry is the first incubated feature film to emerge from the initiative.
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