Growing Pains (2021)

‘Growing Pains’ is a self authored documentary set over a five-month period. This film looks at isolation, reflecting on the past and letting go. Through audio clippings of phone calls, conversations with my mum and smartphone footage, ‘Growing Pains’ captures the uncertainty of your early 20s and is a snapshot into how sometimes we need to look back on the past to understand our present. This film is more serious than my previous films - touching on topics such as loneliness, the fake connections within social media and the realities of supporting a loved one through cancer. This is a bittersweet film that was created from my own experiences after having moved back home indefinitely during COVID.