In the mundane hours of early summer, five girls sulk in their own boredom waiting for something. When Willow (Sophie Bawks-Smith) stumbles upon a seemingly abandoned cabin, she begins fantasizing about the life she and the girls could have there. Leader (Destini Stewart), Jules (Jillian Frank), Vicky (Mari Geraghty), and Millie (Rowan Wales) pack their bags and whisper a quick goodbye to the life they knew. They flow through open fields, blissfully entering their new sun-soaked world.
Director Avalon Fast’s new film Honeycomb is a way of feeling. A slow mindless space has been written with borderless rules and time to fill. The girls push for a meaning that is hardly there, struggling to reach out, grab it, and lock it in a box. Sometimes the girls find themselves feeling as though they were freer before.
Fast describes the trajectory of the story as, “Honeycomb does not follow one main character, instead, it watches this group as a whole as they settle into their mind-bending isolation. I wanted to make a film that showed the kind of resentment that ‘the girls’ might feel for being sidelined in social situations, being the ones invited to parties, not the ones having them. These girls felt inferior to their guy friends and partners, and they were looking for a way out. It also shows the dynamics of choosing a leader within a friend group, either purposely or subconsciously.
Writer and director Avalon Fast says, “Honeycomb tells the real horror story of taking things too far, without a way to go back. Sacrificing friendships for relationships. The way female beauty can overpower the evil that lurks within. It is everything that I felt in my year after graduation, played by my closest friends, and put together as a family. Our world premiere at Slamdance has us absolutely thrilled, and we cannot wait for the world to see what Honeycomb is all about.”
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