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Jenny

11m Documentary, Short, Relationships 1977

Teenage love, labels, and looking sideways.

Jenny is a teenage girl in a same-sex relationship, and JENNY lets her speak plainly about it. She talks about what the relationship means to her, how she sees the lesbian scene, and how others see her. There’s no sweeping drama or moral panic – just an honest portrait of one young person navigating identity, attraction and assumptions. Made in 1978, it’s one of the rare screen documents of queer youth from the era – clear-eyed, unsentimental and ahead of its time.

A Film Australia Production.

© National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

Director

Jan Sharp

Language

English

Country

Australia

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