Debutante - Award-Winning Short Film (2021)

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Irish Film & TV Academy Award-nominated, multi-award-winning drama offering a closer look at one of the most devastating policies of Jehovah's Witnesses.
A devoted Jehovah's Witness is forced to reconsider her beliefs during a judicial committee hearing led by three congregation elders.
Written, directed and produced by Kamila Dydyna.
Awards & Nominations:
Irish Film & TV Academy Award (IFTA) Nominee: Best Short Film (Live Action) 2022
Winner: Best Irish Fiction Short, Kerry International Film Festival 2021
Winner: Best National/ International Film, @ Richard Harris International Film Festival, 2021
Winner: Audience Award @ Chicago Irish Film Festival, 2022
Winner: Best Short Film @ Achill Island Film Festival, 2022
Nominee: Best Irish Short, Dublin International Short Film & Music Festival 2022
Nominee: Best Writing (Kamila Dydyna) & Best Actress (Úna O'Brien) @ Richard Harris International Film Festival, 2021
Nominee: Best Sound Design (Killian Fitzgerald / Avatar Audio Post Production) @ Fastnet Film Festival 2022
Official Selection/ World Premiere: 33rd Galway Film Festival, 2021
Reviews: "One of the most powerful short films I have seen in some time, Debutante is a moving tribute to the vision and dedication of writer, director, and producer, Kamila Dydyna. With heartrending and touchingly believable performances from both lead roles, Meg (Úna O'Brien) and Sam (Richard Neville), it tells the story of a young couple balancing personal happiness when their feelings are set in opposition to their religious beliefs." FILM IRELAND
Audience feedback:
"It’s incredibly skilfully written and made. It takes just 18 minutes to break your heart and make you incandescent with rage."
"Absolutely true to life (...) and devastatingly honest in the portrayal of the damage of the judicial system and the shunning policy."
"So simple and efficient in its storytelling (all killer, no filler, atmospheric and not a moment wasted), but really arresting, such strong performances."
Starring:
Úna O'Brien
Arthur Riordan
Richard Neville
Sam McGovern
Gary Mullan
Noelle Brown
Anthony O’Boyle
Director of Photography: Barry Doyle
Editor: Eoin McDonagh
Original Score by Natalia Tsupryk & Ray Harman
Audio Post-Production: Killian Fitzgerald
Executive Producers:
Pierre Montigny
Kosmos
Daniel Fitzgibbon
Chris Stuckmann
Scott Homan
Beniamin Enea
Associate Producers:
Kimberly Springer Payea
Andre Jackson
Jack Grey
Matthew Kirwan
Piotr Michalski
Official Partners: Atheist Ireland
The story behind the making of Debutante: linkedin.com/pulse/making-film-against-all-odds-kamila-dydyna

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@alexcampbell3032 26 дней назад

I loved this girls Gnome messing attitude!

@Seminex222 27 дней назад

there is no such thing as unconditional love among JW's my sister was in a similar situation. she got kicked out - even from home. she is shuned by my parents - it brought me and my sister closer together i was never baptised so my parents do not shun me - but i have not talked to them in 8 years! they chose their family - so have I

@isaiah30v8 11 часов назад

I tell Jehovah's Witnesses to go through the narrow gate that is on the cramped road leading to life. . Matthew 7:13-14 “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road ** LEADING OFF INTO LIFE ** and few are the ones finding it. . I ask them to read what Jehovah said would happen at the time of the end that is in every Christians bible and yet, few are the ones finding it: . Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of Jehovah, YOU men who are trembling at his word: “YOUR brothers that are hating YOU, that are excluding YOU by reason of my name, said, ‘May Jehovah be glorified!’ He must also appear with rejoicing on YOUR part, and they are the ones that will be put to shame.” . [Name of person] is no longer one of JEHOVAH's Witnesses ---->> "excluding YOU by reason of MY NAME" . I ask them if they can see Jehovah's promise to disfellowshipped Jehovah's Witnesses: . "He must also appear with rejoicing on YOUR part"! . I then warn them that, if they go through this narrow gate they will lose their family as a consequence of the Watchtower Societies shunning policies. . Then I ask them to read what Jesus Christ said about everlasting life: . Mark 10:29-30 Jesus said: “Truly I say to YOU men, No one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news 30 who will not get a hundredfold now in this period of time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the coming system of things ** EVERLASTING LIFE ** . I then ask them if they want to live forever. . I also tell them that they can leave the organization and their congregation with dignity by telling everybody that they believe Jehovah, Jesus Christ and everything else in the bible. . Walk out with your head held high and jump for joy when you do. . What Jehovah said would happen, is now really happening! . That's Good News ................... right! . Jesus said: “Truly I say to YOU men, No one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOOD NEWS. .

@derekmaverick5986 10 дней назад

Holy hell I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Showing my friends a calvacade of news reports, court cases, and RU-vidrs makes me look like a conspiracy theorist. But this is a work of art.

@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 9 дней назад

Agreed. Well said. As an aside, after how thoroughly and shamelessly news outlets and supposed journalists have made the conscious decision to stop telling the truth about virtually everything, I view people labeling me a “conspiracy theorist” as a compliment😂 .

@womanofcharacter 18 дней назад

This is so accurate. They get off on it. Humiliating and invasive. You had sex, it happened, end of. There shouldn't be all these questions.

@JeremyJaspers 2 дня назад

I think they were just trying to figure out if she was pregnant cause that determines whether she'd be publicly or privately reproved

@user-jt2vv1zj6z 19 дней назад

Well done❤ Thank you for exposing them. I'm so sorry for the many people that have endured this treatment by Jehovah's Witness elders. ❤

@lh1673 29 дней назад

Was this shown from 2021? Just found it today. Thank you for bringing it up. What a sickening and creepy community I was in, didn’t know what was taking place in the so-called 2nd room😮

@DixieVogel 10 дней назад

this is extremely well done and very true to life. to the point i haven't been able to watch the entire thing in sequence. because going through this experience is every bit as traumatic as it's presented here, right down to 'that one elder' who clearly seems to be enjoying the sexually explicit questioning. i've only been able to watch a little at a time...but thank you for telling the truth so powerfully with this short story.

@JosephHuntelvisnspiders 24 дня назад

Powerful stuff, well done Úna and all involved!

@alexcampbell3032 21 день назад

I'm so glad that you liked my comment Kamila! I regard your film as a beautiful and deeply moving work of art. I look forward very much to your future output.

@Tamingsouls 29 дней назад

These questions are creepy, disrespectful, and just wrong! They made her feel like she was going straight to hell!! And why the hell should anyone confess anything to another human being! Human beings suck...If someone really feels guilty about something and wants atonement, it's only between him "His heart" and God. No one deserves such torture, she was in love, and she's not a f*** whore! Thank you for such a great movie and amazing actors, and most importantly, thank you for scooping on such issues!

@noctoi 19 дней назад

These are just the "socially acceptable" questions. For many of us, the interrogation is much, much worse :(

@HandyKindaGuyUK 10 дней назад

This was a scary accurate video. Should've included the announcement though, that's the worst part of it all.

@j.c.b6473 8 дней назад

This is so well done and accurate. Just like my committee meeting. Pervs asking unnecessary questions. The person I had s*x with betrayed me too. Showed false remorse and then shunned me. But in the end we disfellowshipped are better off. No one needs conditional love. Since I left I have made real friends and new family. ❤

@betoarenaz 29 дней назад

Gracias Kamila.

@Bravedog2017 16 дней назад

Just shared it on reddit. There should be more pointing on what is happening in this apostate cult.

@jay54929 29 дней назад

Apparently Jehovah is all knowing but you can hide things from him...hmmm

@intrepidtraveller8212 8 дней назад

"ALL THIS DETAIL" - These perverts love it - they sit within these JC's [Judicial Committees] reeling with feelings of power and as some have hinted, perhaps having a great thrill from it. Regretfully, I have been on these Tribunals. The movie is accurate.

@jmsoulcatcher1281 20 дней назад

Absolutely stellar.

@biagiopiemontese2852 9 дней назад

Very interesting and realistic. It can help to open eyes

@nanotasza 23 дня назад

Dzięki za ten film!

@violettaposadzy8668 24 дня назад

It is a very sad.😢😢

@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 9 дней назад

This is incredible. Its the first video I’ve seen that manages to capture the emotional/mental/spiritual turmoil and agony of the process of being a child (I was 11) who was unethically encouraged and irresponsibly permitted to dedicate their life to Jehovah *years* before they were capable of understanding what that means, made mistakes, was judged by men (who are in no position to judge local food contests.. let alone someone’s heart in order to decide whether they should be disfellowshipped), and then being shunned by everyone they’ve ever known and loved. As an aside, I personally find the fact that they are *finally* acknowledging how cruel, unscriptural, and torturous their process of dedication, baptism, judicial committees, disfellowshipping, and shunning is *solely* because they lost money and government protections in Norway to be more insultingly evil than the actual process they’ve been using for decades.

@olivesheridan1175 28 дней назад

Disgraceful behaviour from those so-called men of God 😪

@Fmblogger04 7 дней назад

I'm a grown ass woman in my 40's. Baptized in my early 20's ( convert). I met a 'Brother' we dated for 3 months then started making plan for marriage ( both of our 2nd marriage). We had sex multiple times in the month before we got married. We're adults & we're not virgins. But we DID get married. Anyway, he committed adultery a year later & I went to the elders because I wanted a divorce. To spite me, my ex went to the elders to tell of our premarital fornication. He knew he was being DF'd for adultery so he wanted to get me DF'd as well. Had been on 20 years & never had a JC for anything. And it was pretty much exactly like this! All the dirty details & alot on the JC were younger men -- it was all weird & uncomfortable.

@kaybee4132 28 дней назад

When religion and "religious leaders" forget the grace and mercy of Jesus... Thank the LORD He doesn't remove His fellowship from us. Folks need to understand that. Great message.