Why is this film special?

It's not. And that's the point.

I've been making short, artistic videos for years to express my emotions, my thoughts, and my life. My visual content often deals with depression and explores how I express myself through music, relationships and the world around me.

This is not groundbreaking stuff, I know that. But somehow, over the years, my reflective content about my life has reached people all over the world. I've been so fortunate to have found an audience who support who I am, how I feel and what I create, and I have an opportunity to explore more of that.

A year ago, I took my need to turn my pain into art and combined it with my love for video editing and storytelling to make a short film. I wanted to take it further than my own experience and so I created a collaborative, visual project of what depression feels like to different people.

It was a huge feat for me, and I was so unbelievably apprehensive for how it would be received by the world, but also by the people who shared their stories with me. The response was overwhelming. I couldn't believe how successful it was and how many people it touched. To this day, it is my greatest accomplishment.

Ever since then, I've been wanting to explore film making more. I'm currently on an acting course and for our final year dissertation, we have to create a project. I'm making a film. A real film. I mean, it's still a short film, but I want it to be a proper, conventional, industry-approved (yikes) film.

I have the vision for it. I don't want to give too much away but it'll be a "slice of life" film about a young woman who is alone in a city that never stops, living her life. Like I said, it's nothing special and that's the point. She could be anyone. She could be me, she could be you, she could be someone who lives in the flat below you that you see but have never spoken to, WHO KNOWS!

I'm not a writer, I have no equipment, and I don't really know what I'm doing, but I feel passionate about this and I want to make something that hopefully people can relate to. I don't know. I don't know you. But maybe you're intrigued and you'd like to help me.

I've applied for funding, I'm using my own money and hopefully I can raise something on here to help go towards buying/renting equipment and bribing people into helping me make this vision a reality. I'll be releasing the film online for free and if it goes well, I might enter it into local film festivals. We'll see.