When Pamela Ribon set out to adapt her memoir into an animated short, producer Jeanette Jeanenne suggested director Sara Gunnarsdóttir to direct.
This collaboration led to a comedic animated short that won awards at multiple festivals before finally receiving an Oscar nomination.
My Year of Dicks, based on a chapter of Ribon’s memoir Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public, follows a 15-year-old Pam on a comedic journey to find the right boy to lose her virginity to.
The animated short is split into five chapters, each following the story of a different crush with a different style of animation. DEADLINE: How did this short come about?
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