When the local high school beauty pageant offers a college scholarship to the winning contestant, Shelly imagines a future beyond her abusive home life and does whatever it takes to break free. Filmed on location at a junkyard/trailer compound, chain-linked fences frame key story moments to portray characters as trapped, abandoned cars and deteriorating machines symbolize social decay often associated with the southern United States. A coming of age story that digs deep into the complex nature of familial, mother-daughter, and male-female relations, remarking thoughtfully on stereotypes without perpetuating them.
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Jenna Cavelle Director · Derek Sepe Editor Alexah Acuña Production designer
Budget $1K · United States release January 1, 2014
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$1,000
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 2014
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