TOP GIRL at LA Film Fest €

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About Top Girl:

Directed By: Rebecca Johnson
Executive Producer: Victoria Lorkin-Lange
Producer: Rebecca Johnson
Screenwriter: Rebecca Johnson
Cinematographer: David Raedeker
Editor: Mags Arnold
Cast: Rumbi Mautsi, Naomi J. Lewis
Music: Skwilla Gee
Truthful, tender and punctuated by ill advised sexual encounters, TOP GIRL is a coming-of-age story about girls growing up in a man's world.


Set in Brixton South London, and shot using a cast of new and non-actors, TOP GIRL is a raw, truthful and tender coming of age tale. Fearless fifteen year old Donna and her best mate Felicia set off on a mission to find Legz, a supercool 20 year old with a recording studio in the bedroom of his mum's flat. The idea is for Donna to MC on a track but events don't go according to plan. Starved of attention, Donna impulsively lunges at Legz and ends up in an abrupt sexual encounter in the toilet. Afterwards she's thrilled and bursting to tell Felicia but at school the next day, word has got out and suddenly Donna finds herself a playground pariah. Unable to handle the humiliation in front of her friend, she lashes out at Felicia. Now totally alone and reduced to hiding from the world any way she can, Donna is at rock bottom. Will she manage to salvage her TOP GIRL status and win back her best friend? With irrepressible moxie, TOP GIRL captures the intensity of youth and the reality of growing up as a teenage girl in a man's world.

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