Period Drama - Animated Short Film

"Period Drama" - Animated Short Film by Lauryn Anthony and Anushka Tina Nair

When young Georgiana Crimsworth finds blood on her sheets and thinks she's dying, she spirals into fear imagining what's going to happen to her body.

Produced at Ringling College of Art and Design by

Lauryn Anthony
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Anushka Tina Nair

Music & Sound by AudioBrew
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Music by Amanda Duran
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Music Production by Adam Traister
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Supervising Sound Editor - Kokoy Amante
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Dialogue Editor - Richard Adams
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Sound Editor / Foley Artist - Nathan Lienau
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Re-recording Mixer - Richard Adams
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Audio Director - Adam Traister
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Voice of Georgiana - Bekka Goldstein @bekkadraws
Voice of Narrator - Joanne Lichtenstein
Voice of Mrs. Crimsworth - Olivia Coucci @theartfulolive

© Lauryn Anthony and Anushka Nair 2022

[sapphirewingthefurrycritic]

Well that is exactly what a kid would expect during that era.

[garyjust]

The true imagination of an eleven year old. Great animation!

[nanilogy]

This is honestly how I felt when I got my first period at 11 lol. Had a really bad stomach ache one day and when I went to the bathroom, I saw blood and thought my insides were melting and that I was gonna die and started crying. Until I remembered "Oh wait this must be that period thing Mom told me about" and immediately started calming down :')

[ShadowRaccoon]

This is the perfect representation of what runs through a young girl's mind who was never told about periods.

[fatcat]

"It's your body's way of preparing to be with child" is an infinitely better explanation than "You're a woman now."

[hw]

Parents who don't prepare girls for their first period are cruel. It's a scary, painful, smelly, bloody experience. Spare the scare and be honest about what to expect BEFORE it happens.

[rowan]

This actually happened to my great grandma, but in the early 1920s. She was 14 (late period after living through WWI) and a secretary for a modeling agency. One of the models found her crying in the bathroom, and when she asked my great grandma what was wrong, she exclaimed that she was dying.

[rubybates]

When I got mine at 11, I just cried, felt ashamed, told my mother, had to listen to her freak about how I was "too young" (which is literally not even true), felt 10000x worse about her saying that to me, got no pain meds or nice food, literally just got told where the pads were and was told to skip a day even though I didn't wan't to. Btw, I didn't get the sex talk or anything because she just assumed I already knew... -_- I basically learned everything I learned from the period booklet that our school gave us.
Mothers, teach your daughters about this stuff without acting all weird or like they have lost some part of their innocence or whatever.
Its literally just an annoying part of life, it's not that hard to talk about and it could save your daughters a lot of future pan and self-worth issues.

[girl]

Considering the time this story takes place...Georgiana's fears aren't all that out there sadly. She's lucky she even has her mother. Childbirth was much more fatal back then and unexplained deaths weren't uncommon either. Poor girl.

[mariaocean]

My mama is from an strict Roman Catholic community. In 1976, she when away at age 10 for girl scouts camp. She woke up in the middle of night to bloodied sheets - thought she was dying. Her crying woke the other girls and the had to get the nurse on site to come talk to her. The Irony here is that my mom has 4 older sisters who didn't warn her - such was the social stigma.

[cheeseplease]

When I first had my period, I thought it was only for one day in my life and that's it never again. 😂 When my mum told me that it will come every month, I bursted into tears because seriously the pain is terrible.

[Cindy_Hollow]

I remember when my period started around the age of 12. We went to the skating rink with friends. Since I wasn't very good at skating, I fell a lot and several times into the splits. When I came home and decided to take a bath, I was terribly scared. All my underwear was soaked in blood. I started crying my eyes out realising that I probably tore somethig. There was only my dad at home at that time. He was also as scared as I was, because he went to the ice rink with me and saw me fall. He called mom and told her about the situation while I was standing under the shower and washing my panties. I knew about menstruation and childbirth as my parents are doctors and my mother told me a long time ago. She even drew everything I needed to know on paper. But at that time I had a connection: I fell while skating. On the splits. SEVERAL TIMES. So, I might have just tore everything in my groin area and now I'm bleeding! 😳 Dad calmed me down, brought me a pad and new panties. There was no embarrassment just fear and confusion. Later on I laughed at this situation 😅 I remember my hands shaking as I was putting a pad (I put it upside down at first). So, yeah, that's how I got my period 🤣

[laineydavidson]

Honestly more informative than the sex-ed I received in middle school

[hpthelonesomeartist]

The transitions are done very well! It takes a lot of skill to have each of the scenes flow together at such a fast pace. It definitely helped convey the imaginative fears a child has about something they don’t understand. Very nice :D

[shaneyzamora]

Now parents, its important to talk to your kids about this kind of thing, even if it hasn't happened yet. It won't be the most comfortable conversation, but you have to do it.

[HellGirl]

The first crisis hotline was made by a British vicar named Chad Varah who had found out the reason a young local girl had k***ed herself was because she had gotten her first period but thought she caught an STD and was ashamed enough to end her own life. Chad founded the Samaritans and ran it out of the church basement until it caught on and expanded. He was also took on a life-long commitment to educate on sex-ed and later spoke out about FGM.

[hoodie]

death, getting your period for the first time, eternal damnation, its all the same really

[bluefox]

After all that, and then being told she was ready to "bear children" immediately imagined a baby ripping through her. X'D (This is such a perfect example of what goes through your mind at that age.)

[saloni]

I got my first period at the age of 11. In a night of late October 2015, I remember, at around 2am, I woke up with pain and discomfort around my abdomen and went to the bathroom. Yes, that was my first period and I legit thought I had CANCER and I was afraid that by morning I would be exsanguinated to death. I felt horrified by the prospect of this 'upcoming death' and was devastated while wondering how would my parents cope with my death. I sobbed and sobbed until my mother heard me. She came to me and explained, "It’s a girl's body of preparing a baby". I was horrified at the prospect of childbirth. I had so many questions. Thankfully, my mum calmed me. But please dear parents, teach your daughters about periods before they reach puberty because my parents didn't.

[dragonladyk]

Ahhh, reminds me of being 8... Early puberty and my Mum never taught me ANYTHING about periods or my body. Cue 2-3 months of being punished for brown stains in my undies because I was being told I wasn't "wiping myself properly"... Only to have it happen in my bathing suit at the beach, my Mum seeing, then breaking down into gut wrenching sobs while I sat there terrified and confused as to why she was crying.