2023, 10:11 minutes, Colour, English
From marching bands and track meets, to courtrooms and reasonable doubt, using archival footage, Teen Girl Fantasy combines the unsentimental dreaminess of Coppola’s Virgin Suicides with the shocking mid-century touchpoint of Peyton Place to examine what teen girls fantasize about and what fantasies are placed upon them. But in Teen Girl Fantasy, what happens when the celebration ends?
Teen Girl Fantasy was created with the aid of a grant from the Writer’s Union of Canada for Hoicka to write her original script under the mentorship of Canadian poet, Nikki Reimer.
Teen Girl Fantasy, had its World Premiere in the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2024, it’s South American Premiere at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema -BAFICI (Argentina), it’s North American Premiere at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (USA), and has been honoured by inclusion screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czechia), Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival (Portugal), Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico), Concorto Film Festival (Italy), Crossroads Film Festival, SFCinematheque, San Francisco, (USA), the Calgary International Film Festival (Canada), Chicago International Film Festival (USA), Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, (Canada), the Cork International Film Festival (Ireland) and more.
Hear Hoicka speak about “Teen Girl Fantasy” in a video she created for the Automat Project for Antimatter Media Art Festival.
