MADELEINE HICKS
STORY
SUNSHINE GIRLS follows the story of Elaine, a timid woman nearing her 30th birthday who must make the difficult choice between motherhood and medically induced photosynthesis.
After prolonged environmental destruction, Elaine’s world is experiencing a dangerous shortage of oxygen.
Science has created a solution to this problem: a “minimally invasive” medical procedure that allows women’s reproductive systems to host photosynthesis and cellular respiration, ultimately enabling them to give birth to air.
For the first time in her life, amongst the ragtag troupe of oxygen-producing misfits called the Sunshine Girls, Elaine finally begins to blossom into the woman she has always wanted to be...but not everything is always as bright and sunny as it seems.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
SUNSHINE GIRLS is both a love letter and a rallying cry.
Women are the sunlight illuminating everything around them. They are nurturing. They are strong. They are giving. They are the seeds from which we grow and the roots that ground us.
We want to explore the beauty and tenderness of life-giving, while also acknowledging the potential for violence and suffering alongside it.
STATUS
Production is set to conclude the end of September 2022.