16 minutes. One deaf girl. Three generations of silence screaming to be heard.
A deaf girl living in a rural fishing village with her Dad and Grandad sees her life turned upside down when she is left with an increasingly abusive stepmother. A story of overcoming disability and adversity.
Acting
Olivia Pickering's wordless performance devastates without uttering sound.
Direction
Scragg frames deafness as cinematic language, not limitation.
Sound
Deliberate audio design puts hearing audiences in Frankie's world.
Director
Anne-Marie Scragg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Anne-Marie Scragg cast deaf actors and used deaf crew, rejecting the Hollywood tradition of hearing performers 'playing' disability.
The title refers to bioluminescence—light created in darkness, much like Frankie's stubborn hope.
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