SHYGIRL MAKES HER SCREEN DEBUT IN GETAWAY, A TWISTED, TENDER SHORT FILM ABOUT SEX AND THE STRANGE INTIMACY OF STRANGERS. WELCOME TO THE CAMPSITE, WHERE NOTHING IS QUITE AS IT SEEMS.

Words – Ella Bardsley

Photography – Oliver Bell

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Sexual freedom. Selfhood. Swingers. 
In her first acting role, Shygirl is anything but. 
With a second screening at SXSW London on Saturday, Geta- way follows a heartbroken camper who stumbles into a liberating swingers’ retreat — where fresh air isn’t the only thing on offer. Set on an idyllic seaside campsite, the 12-minute short is an offbeat horror-comedy that leans into kink, cuts through shame, and finds power in the delicate, the intimate, and the slightly unhinged. 

Think Luca Guadagnino’s raw eroticism meets the awkward bril- liance of Skins. Stolen glances. Naked showers. They say three’s a crowd, but is it? Shygirl’s ménage à trois is a star-studded one, joined by rising names Michael Workéyè as Daniel (Black Mirror, This is Going to Hurt) and George Smale as Fred (Masters of the Air, Slow Horses). 

Written by Harry Redding, directed by Aaron Kilercioglu, and pro- duced by Milk Machine’s Francesco Loy Bell and Harry Moore,