PRETTY RED DRESS
Film - CineVision Competition Filmfest 2023

PRETTY RED DRESS

Directed by Dionne Edwards

Info

Director: Dionne Edwards
Section: CineVision Competition
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2022
Language: English
Version: Original version
Cast: Natey Jones, Alexandra Burke, Temilola Olatunbosun
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Dionne Edwards puts her brilliant cast in a dress in an affectionate and musical tug at their narrow view of things like queerness and black masculinity.

Released from prison, Travis returns to his girlfriend, Candice, and their teenage daughter, Kenisha. To make up to Candice, he buys her a red dress, the perfect outfit for her audition for a musical. The family dynamic gets off-kilter, however, when Candice and Kenisha see Travis trying on the dress himself. What unspoken truths and desires do the three of them have?

Meet the director

PRETTY RED DRESS

Dionne Edwards

Dionne Edwards is a screenwriter and director. Her previous work includes THAT GIRL, a 30-minute drama for the Channel 4 series "On the Edge", and the short film WE LOVE MOSES, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and was subsequently screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, receiving nine awards. Edwards is a fellow of the inaugural 2020/21 Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship. PRETTY RED DRESS, her first feature-length film, was selected for the 2019 Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs.

Credits

Screenplay: Dionne Edwards
Director of Photography: Adam Scarth
Film Editor: Andonis Trattos
Composer: Hugo Brijs
Production Designer: Phoebe Platman
Costume Design: Nirage Mirage; Jayne Hemsley
Make-up artist: Billie McKenzie
Casting director: Elan Jones
Producer: Georgia Goggin
Production Company: Teng Teng Films
Executive producer: Farhana Bhula, Eva Yates, Jim Reeve, Robert Halmi, Bennett McGhee
World Sales: Protagonist Pictures