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WHEN I SING

RUDE AWAKENING

By Anne WHEELER

Female director - Development 2023

For Dodie Spinner life seems perfect - it's 1966, she's in love, about to graduate, landed the lead in the college musical comedy - until she is raped, left pregnant, and suddenly has to fight for her future at a time when a woman's choices are few.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Female director, Drama, True Story
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Anne WHEELER
- Writer(s)
- Anne WHEELER
- Producer(s)
- Ava KARVONEN (REEL GIRLS MEDIA INC.), Michelle MORRIS (LILY PICTURES INC.)
- Synopsis
- For Dodie Spinner life seems perfect – it’s 1966, she’s in love, about to graduate and landed the comedy lead in the college musical. Saving herself for marriage, her world collapses when she’s raped. Ashamed, she tells no one and carries on with rehearsals and classes until she discovers she’s pregnant. In an era where abortion and birth control are illegal, Dodie scrambles to find a way to end the pregnancy. On the brink of insanity, and constricting social pressure, she finds solace in music and the help of those she loves, to learn that her life is hers to choose.