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00:05Kia ora everyone, my name's Paloma Schneiderman.
00:08I'm the writer and director of Big Girls Don't Cry,
00:12which is my debut feature film coming out of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
00:16It's a coming-of-age story set over one transformative summer in 2006.
00:22It follows eight weeks of our protagonist, Syd Bookman's life,
00:27as she tries to sort of escape her childhood.
00:30At its core, it's a story about queer adolescence and female shame,
00:35and really it's about a girl who wants to be seen like an adult,
00:40but actually just needs to be loved like a child.
00:42The film is set where I grew up,
00:44which was for the most part a pretty isolated and lonely rural area,
00:48but this kind of phenomenon would occur over summer
00:51where all the wealthy out-of-towners would come up from the city
00:54and they'd take over the beach town
00:56and for about six weeks of the year you could kind of reinvent yourself
01:00in front of this audience of exciting new people,
01:04which is pretty much what happens for Syd.
01:07She kind of sees these people as a gateway to her anticipated metamorphosis.
01:14Big Girls exists in the liminal spaces between girlhood and womanhood,
01:19between consent and non-consent,
01:21and between being seen and being desired
01:25and the cost of not knowing the difference.
01:27We're so excited to be premiering this.
01:30We're so honored to be premiering this at 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
01:34All of these zines and emotions,
01:37we can change and transition into the gauchy
01:40We will not answer any questions as we get them.
01:40With Frisca's annual news,
01:40we can't hit перек COUNTER in the NHL bakers.
01:40Let them get them on our news,
01:41let's start in the morning.
01:41I just need toEEE America,
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