Canadian writer-director Jasmin Mozaffari’s debut film Firecrackers follows two young women looking to escape their repressive small town life for a new start in New York. Mozaffari says she wanted to portray real, not idealised, women on screen.
“A lot of films about teenage girls often romanticise them, put them in a box and look at them as these delicate creatures,” she says. “That’s not what I knew growing up. Myself and the girls I grew up around weren’t these delicate creatures. There were moments when I was crass, and rude, and acted impulsively.”
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