“Damned Dolls”
Social worker Monica battles to reconnect with RC a lost adult child of the care system who has, for the moment, lost the plot.
Director Biography
Sara Jane has written a feature script, Tolerance, with the financial support of Creative Scotland. She is currently working on the feature script’s Crazy Dasies and Damned Dolls. She has written and published a book; The Seven Sisters of Carbeth and is working on the sequel, The Hand of Carbeth.
Director’s Statement
I worked in social care for 22 years as a qualified registered manager, predominately on the front line of homelessness. Damned Dolls is drawn from my experiences, the people I met and the situations I faced on a daily basis during my career.
The journey into adulthood is difficult for most people, but much more so, for young people brought up in the care system. It is my hope that this film will capture the emotional intensity of their experience in a realistic and natural way.
It is my hope that Damned Dolls will enable and encourage healthy open discussion about very real current social issues that have already been identified as needing changed on many levels throughout society.
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