Synopsis

Our film explores the serious issue of addiction and emphasises the effects of it.

Weightless is the tale of a young girl named Eve, who was brought up into a strict, unloving family. She was raised as the 'black sheep' of the family, both neglected and unloved. She felt something was missing, and so went to seek attention and love elsewhere.
She caught the eye of Jermaine; an impulsive young man who had recently moved into her neighbourhood, although Jermaine was not the best influence for young Eve. After getting her hooked on illegal drugs, the two made a pact to stay together forever, but little did Eve know that meant running away from their families, becoming dependant on drugs and leading a life of addiction and poverty.

Our film is of the social realism genre, due to the dramatic and realistic lifestyles of the main characters, Jermaine and Eve who experience serious issues such as drug addiction and poverty.

Pitch

Title - Lucid Nightmares/Distortion

Psychological thriller
Main character: female - late teens
Setting: to be decided

The main characters family gets murdered
Because of that event, she turns to LSD to get away from reality
She has many hallucinations but she develops severe paranoia and believes that the murderer is after her, watching her all the time - even though he's locked up
Her state slowly deteriorates
She gets sectioned and eventually recovers