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STUSHI & CAP (4EVR DOOMED & SCREWED)
a screenplay by tom bruggen -

What if a beautiful white girl fell in love with the dream of a black solider fighting in Afghanistan, her racist family is pro british involvement and has to deal with her feelings on the street, secrets, hopes and aspirations - she has to deal with his jealous threats from away on the frontline, he gets drunker and more violently jealous of everything she does at home, he emails her to tell her to stop seeing anyone else - men first, then even females, then even family, then tells her not to leave the house for anything! Not to get made up, not to wash.
Living under his spell she ekes out a living in poverty until, out of the blue - he sends a letter saying he is returning home, morally objecting to shit he has to do - returning - to marry her, have kids, lots of them. She has to think about future forever with him - yes or no, forever is a long time, the Ipod kind of says yes - some of the songs she sings ironically, they say no - or kind of, confused she dresses up to lose herself, hide herself from the reality of his pressure, his return, everything she buys, sees, hears, does is tear drenched negotiation through meanings of her contemporary british culture - she listens to "his" music, every detail reminds her of him, - this tells her yes to marriage and loyalty, of his apporach, standing out from the rest, she listens and looks, his 50c "bitch", his "ho". she hears and fantasises about him, until - his return.

Reality brings different feelings: of dominance, helplessness, and the tributes he recieves from his mates ring hollow with her, and her life is empty although fitting the picture of life in pop videos.

 They look their respective parts, until, she falls for another woman, her best friend Hannah, who helps her over her transference and into a new life of hope and independence? He sinks into alcholholism and is beaten to death in a racist attack on his doorstep.

A love story - incompatible life-styles, the brilliance and the brawn, the emotional and the intellectual, the incongruity of multicultural rhetoric amongst racist reality? A study in the complexity of culture - fashion even - making the most of each moment in fashion, living for that cultural moment against nature, because life is too short.

FILMING 2011

 

Aleisha -        Cheryl Hogan

 

Stushi -         Stephanie Spencer

 

Jay -            Jael Ryder

 

Jocylyn -        Abi Leonard

 

Cap -            Shelley Ward

 

Khadijah -       Sepidah

 

Badger -

 

Clover --        Bret Murphy

 

Bones -              

 

Hangar -         Aaron Weekes

 

Cap's Bro -

 

Cap's Mum -      Ionie Charles

 

Bomber -         Liam Brown

 

Turbo -          Adam Brown

 

Corko  -         Jamie Corkovic

 

Othie -          Othie Sykes

 

Chocolate -      Cherrel Romans 

 

Gogo  -          Charlene

 

Happy -         

 

Gods Cop 1 -     Naomi Sampson

 

Gods cop 2 -     Tricia Lawrence

 

Detective -      Nyesha Farag

 

Protester 1 -

 

Clerk of court -

 

Magistrate -

 

Davy -

 

Protester 1 -

 

Protester 2 -

 

Promoter -        Gareth Williams

 

Co promoter -     Tom Bruggen

 

Trainer -         Bingo

 

Journalist -      Kat Ryan

 

Hannah -          Letitia Denny

 

Solicitor -       Asa

 

Police cell prisoners -

 

Stushi's Dad      Phil Mathews

 

Army officer -    Terry

 

Lady q -

 

Opponents:        Angel Mckenzie

 

                  Michelle Grizzle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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