Essex Girls

Oct 14, 2023

0h 15m

★ 0.0

Overview

After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Monegram

T A P E Collective

BFI Network

Screen South

Surgent Studios

Fully Focused Productions

Essex Girls Trailers

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Cast

Bisola

Busayo Ige

Saffron

Maisie Smith

Ashlee

Corinna Brown

Charlie

Adrianna Bertola

Malachi

Daniel Adeosun

Ronke

Tomi Ogunjobi

Tiyah

Krysstina Frempong

Aisha

Rebecca Dike

Mr. Flannery

Dan Gaisford

Harry

Charlie Baker

Callum

Craig Webb

Tom

Bruno Cryan

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