DISMISSED

PROJECT DETAILS

Director, Writer and Producer: Aysha Scott

 

Director of Photography: AJ James

 

Co Producer: Sam Addo

 

1st AD: Leah Scott

 

Starring: Cindy Humphrey and Louise Skelly

 

IMDB 

SCREENINGS/AWARDS

S.O.U.L Film UK (BFI), Cannes International Independent Film Festival, British Urban Film Festival, WADFF, SISS Festival, Lift-Off Global and ISFF.

A compassionate catholic teacher panics when she finds a suicide note in her classroom and attempts to discover the vulnerable pupil.

 

After a long hard day of teaching, Mrs Armstrong marks her students work when a piece of paper on the floor catches her eye. She goes to inspect the scrunched up piece of paper and discovers a suicide note from one of her pupils. Her days of catholic teaching, suddenly becomes a hunting ground to save the vulnerable pupil, and it turns out that all what she thought she knew of her class she knew nothing at all.

 

Dismissed is a social impact film that explores the key signs of young suicide and bully victims overlooked in the classroom.