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Director Statement, Amalie Maria Nielsen 2023 As a child I was raised by a single mother. Throughout my childhood I met several kinds of male figures whom I grew attached to: teachers, soccer coaches, caretakers. These relationships often left me confused with a lot of mixed feelings. Feelings involving paternal admiration, platonic fascination, infatuation. Role models who projected something I myself wanted to be. Often, I felt it all at once. One thing that always recurred in these relationships was that at some point, they would end. In many ways, I always considered them cursed. No matter how close these bonds grew, they would never prevail and thus could never give me what I really needed. Like in my own experience, my main character Milo projects the identity of her male caretaker onto herself. This theme of gender identity becomes important throughout the film. However, it was of great importance to me that the main plot shouldn’t revolve around her gender identity. Rather, it should be an aspect of Milo’s life she has to deal with. The film isn’t a coming out story as we know it but rather gives an insight into a character who is in a state of transit. When a person is going through this it becomes crucial that the people around them are listening, understanding, and accepting. This also brings the social criticism within the film to the front. Milo's story takes place in an institution for troubled, maladjusted girls where the sudden absence of the above-mentioned support is particularly evident. How does this affect a young, vulnerable person whose well-being is dependent upon a constantly changing system that may even replicate the troubles it was meant to solve?
Country: Denmark
T-Port Partner: Screen Talent Europe
Webpage: https://www.instagram.com/amaliemaria/
Amalie Maria Nielsen (They/she) grew up on the island Fyn alone with her single mother and is now based in Copenhagen. Amalie Maria graduated last year (2022) from the film school 18Frames and is now working as a director. In her work she is drawn to the relational drama and all things unsaid that flutter somewhere in-between our attempts to connect with each other. She is driven by her curiosity and need of questioning human behavior in a modern setting and is particularly interested in our ever-changing understanding of sexuality, boundaries and intimacy. Characters struggling with their own and society’s gender expectations is a common theme for Amalie Maria and are appearing in all of her films. LATEST WORK FICTION: THE SHIFT - Selected to BERLINALE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 in the “Generation Kplus Competition", Graduation film, 18FRAMES, short film AMATEUR - Selected to NORDISK PANORAMA 2022 in the “New nordic voice category”, Midtterm film, 18FRAMES, short film NEVER SAY NO - Winner of "Pitch me baby" Odense Film Festival 2020, Selected to SIFF 2022, Produced by SNOWGLOBE (DK), short film COMMERCIALS: Campaign film for the Children’s conditions organisation DK EDUCATION: 18FRAMES FILMSCHOOL, Third year #5, Director, 2019-2023
MILO lives at a home for young angry, maladjusted girls where the employee NICKI is...
