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AFF'25 Screening Dates & Times
- FRiDAY 10/24 9:45 PM | Rollins Theatre at the Long Center
- TUESDAY 10/28 7:00 PM | Galaxy Theatre 4
You're gonna love this one!
Tagline
A provocative new comedy about sex, friendship, and the housing crisis. What else should films be about these days?
Logline
The lives of 6 women suffering the consequences of the London Housing Crisis converge during the course of one day.
Synopsis
Lily returns to her flat-share after spending a few weeks in a mental health hospital. Ruth is a homeless street poet. Monica is a single mum who lives in a hotel. As the day unravels their stories become inextricably intertwined in this heavily satirical comedy, which finalises Hugo Santa Cruz’s trilogy of narrative and experimental microbudget features on Brexit, Climate Activism, and now the Housing Crisis.
ABOUT THE WRITER/DIRECTOR
Hugo Santa Cruz is a prolific London-based writer, director, and producer whose work blends experimental form with sharp socio-political critique.
A former musician whose songs featured in acclaimed series such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, Santa Cruz transitioned to filmmaking to explore themes of identity, power, and social change. He is the founder of anti Kino, a cooperative production company committed to countercultural, independent storytelling.
His debut feature, My London Lullaby (2021), examined the lives of Europeans in post-Brexit Britain and won the Special Jury Prize at Italy’s Efebo d’Oro Festival.
His follow-up, The Fifth Generation (2023), is a darkly comic, multilingual exploration of climate politics featuring Leigh Gill (Joker), awarded Best Feature Film at the Brighton Rocks International Film Festival
His 2025 housing-crisis comedy Modern Women is an official selection at the Austin Film Festival.
Known for his bold narrative structures and uncompromising vision, Santa Cruz continues to push boundaries in independent cinema.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION COMPANY
ANTI KINO is Hugo Santa Cruz’s label of punk rock filmmaking. A production co-op where everyone who works in the film, owns the film.
The modus operandi entails writing outrageously humanist features under extreme constraints so as to be able to shoot them as cheaply as possible: no budget, no crew, no permits.
DiRECTOR'S MUSINGS ON MoWo
This heavily satirical comedy finalises my unplanned trilogy of narrative and experimental punk rock features on Brexit, Climate Activism, and now the Housing Crisis.
Modern Women’s metamodernist approach and three storyline structure allowed me to explore the themes of power, brutality and exploitation from three different perspectives, with each perspective bringing its own stylistic nuance.
The storyline of the Truth Ruth character “the street poet”, works as a documentary. Monica's “the single mother” storyline, a cinema verité drama. And finally the “Lily, Lola & Isis” storyline being that of the three bourgeois girls who find out they’re getting kicked out of their hipster flat, is presented as an all out formalist satire with a touch of surrealism.
Adjectives and definitions aside, there is emotion in Modern Women, otherwise the film wouldn’t work; though partly due to a script that took 2 years to write, it is mainly thanks to our wonderful cast of thespians.
Come and see this Modern Women, and men!
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