'Space Girls' is the latest short film from DUST, a British company that aim to be "the premium sci-fi brand that present thought-provoking visions of the future" primarily through feature and short films.
This 9 minute short aims to impart some quite interesting information about space travel and exploration, whilst making sure it isn't a documentary. In order to do this, a rather less than probable premise has been created. A 9 year old girl Charlotte (Bella Padden) has invited three of her friends for a sleep-over and, dressed in space-suit onesies, in a bedroom festooned with space images and space paraphenalia they undertake a secret mission into outer-space in their home-made cardboard space ship. The babysitter interrupts them, but they carry on regardless once she has left, and then the tiny brother enters sleepily demanding to be taken along too. All appears to be going well, as the imparting of facts has now given way to actual footage of the solar system and outer-space as the girls look out of carboard cut-out portholes in wonder from the saftey of the bedroom.
The mission has to be aborted with the arrival home of Charlotte's dad, an eponymously named Mr. Parker [at least 2 astronauts have had this surname]. He kindly and gently settles them into bed and allows them to go to sleep dreaming of space.
Helena Albright, Emily Albright, and Anika Selvarajah are the three girl friends, whilst brother Benji is played by Evan Cregan.
Written and directed by Carys Watford, the film has some interesting facts to impart, and is well put together, and with space exploration and astronauts gaining renewed interest wordwide currently as we celebrate 50 years since the first moon landings, it is a timely release of this short.
Reviewer - Matthew Dougall
on - 20/7/19
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