POLITE SOCIETY•ASHLEY CONNOR

positive experience for Connor. The only upset for her was that she was not able to do the grade in person with colourist Duncan Russell at London’s Halo Post Production.

“The producers had to rush to meet various deadlines. I was shooting a TV show and going to upstate New York to do a small indie movie immediately after. So, even though they went out of their way and rented me a movie theatre in Ithaca to watch the material, we couldn’t do a live grade online,” she explains. “It’s always difficult for a cinematographer not to be there to put the final touch, but they did a great job.”

Connor is also proud of the message the films sends.

“When I choose projects, I follow my instincts. I try to find female characters that lack representation, and like to create new iconography. This project seemed something that could be enjoyable to teenage girls, something I’d have loved to watch at that age,” she concludes.

“For me, there’s no difference between this and indie films like True Things . They speak together as they’re about women breaking-out of narratives we’ve been traditionally shown by men. We’re in a revolutionary place for women to tell their own stories in ways that they want to, and that’s the space of renegotiating cinematic history that I like to work in.”

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