IT'S A PERFECT LIFE
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ABOUT
It's A Perfect Life is a drama following the life of a teenage girl, Madison who wants to lead a life that others envy. So she puts on a persona to have the perfect friends, the perfect relationship and the perfect everything else, when in fact her reality is the exact opposite. Madison lives a life of loneliness and suffers in silence.
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The purpose and main intention of our film is to raise awareness of domestic abuse as so many people are affected by it. n fact 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men aged 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline charity.
CHARACTERS
MADISON WRIGHT
Madison is a seventeen-year-old girl fighting to attain and show off a perfect life, one which doesn’t quite match her own. She enjoys uploading images online of her wondrous events she attends to with her too good to be true boyfriend and lavish group of friends, dressed in their finery where ever they attend. However hiding behind the screen she locks herself away living her life of sparsity, alone. She grew up in a distant home with her parents often leaving for days without telling anyone leaving her no choice but to fend for her own. She’s grown up with neglect being a prominent normality in her life so the abuse that her boyfriend brings her isn’t out of the ordinary.
JAY BROOKMAN
Jay is Madison’s long term boyfriend who is heavily present in our short film. He has grown up being surrounded with wealth and company, often having his three younger brothers to fall upon when needing help. His father is a well-paid barrister carrying on the family name through the company that had been passed down to him from generations before. Jay often goes on expensive, luxury holidays to exotic countries keeping his social media followers aware of every step he takes by uploading images. Although this upbringing may have set him up for the perfect life his uncontrollable anger has taken a toll on his relationship with Madison and the people they surround themselves with.
LILY RAEGAN
Lily, a long blonde haired 18 year old girl lives at her stately home with her three sisters, mother, father and assortment of pets. She dresses to the nines for any occasion often wearing designer garments and makeup flashing around her extravagant and over the top long blonde hair. From an outside perspective her life is a perfect desire which others only wish to have and this is the profile that she maintains.
RACHEL GREEN
Rachel is a naturally beautiful brunette who’s reputation is it all, flaunting off her designer clothes and huge home she is often the talk of the school. With her father owning a factory and her mum being a famous designer she gains most of the attention at home with her parents giving her the world whenever they can. Being an only child she is showered with gifts and love, some may think to hide the amount of time her parents actually spend with her. Her and her boyfriend are normally the talk of the school with their amazing trips away they take and endless couple photos they upload online
AWARDS
GALLERY
ACTORS
Martha Robb
Martha is an actress from Wimbledon. Martha has always had a passion for acting, taking part in several local productions, and gained her first experience of Hollywood production after appearing as an extra in the Jumanji sequel: Jumanji Next Level. After working on a film set Martha has been very keen to take her theatrical acting experience to acting behind a camera.
Madeleine Hambrook
Maddie is an actress from London, England. She has recently gotten her big break in acting appearing on the film The Duff as the main character. She got this role due to attending Stelar Adlers Acting Academey in New York. Her acting academy liked the look of her and scouter her out her out due to her appearance in Shawn Mendes' video for Stitches.
Thea Lawton
Thea is an actress from Thames Ditton, Surrey. She has had a lot of experience of working on a production set after appearing on Soap Operas: Coronation Street and Holby City. Thea is a LAMDA graduate, and from this Thea got her big break in the film Unfriended, where she played the role of Hannah. She has utilised all the skills she gained from acting in these dramas and plans to bring them to her role in It's A Perfect Life.
Charles Gordon
Charles is an actor from Wimbledon, London. He has a background working in many different films including: an extra in James Bond Skyfall as well as the main character in a musical called We Will Rock You. He's very passionate about acting, especially musicals and has now been lined up to play the main character in the play Sister Act. He attended RADA acting school from the age of 18 where he further developed his acting skills.