"Sticky Toffee Pudding is a 21st century tale of grief & consent, of melodrama & hypocrisy - it's a film about moving on, growing up, and discovering who we are and what we stand for. It's also a film about kids with too much money, and presents a realistic, unsympathetic exploration of the "popular kids" we stupidly grow up being so envious of. The film was originally written whilst I was still an A-Level student and so it is incredibly honest in its depiction of the emotions a student might go through in their final year of education. It's not autobiographical, but I was inspired to write it to remember exactly how I felt at the age of eighteen and to eternalise that feeling and those emotions and the melodrama of being a teenager. I've always been interested in Shakespearean plots and so boarding school was one of the only settings I could think of where complex, contradictory teenagers and a winding, larger-than-life story could be feasible. The film's actually adapted from an unpublished play of mine called The Beauty of Youth, which the Papatango New Writing Prize described as 'wonderfully visual', praising its characters in particular. Sticky Toffee Pudding is such a special little flick, with buckets of character and a story that I think people will really enjoy. It's topical, it's current - but it's also universal in its themes and nostalgic tone. At its heart, there's something in there for everyone." - Harvey John