Summer Lovin' in the Digital Age with Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden, Director and Editor of the Documentary Sweeties, Playing at HotDocs

Remember your first summer romance and how it made you feel? 

Sweeties  is a documentary that follows three 14-year-old girls as they embark on a summer holiday with their families to a campsite in the South of France. Feelings and aspirations of young love are in the air. The outdoor campsites, however, are in stark contrast with the online world, where a lot of the girls’ connections are rooted. Talk of what love is, the changes in how people approach romance, the pressures of social media, and the anxieties of coming of age are laid bare with poignant intimacy. For Malak, the camp experience offers a chance to find a new romantic connection. Celia longs for the partner she has but must face the unwanted distance between them. Meanwhile, the only connections Jae wants are those on her phone. The three girls have differing expectations going in but soon find that this summer holiday will be not only memorable but transformative as well.

I caught-up with Dutch Director & Editor, Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden at HotDocs to talk about how, despite not having any children of her own, she was successfully able to become part of her teenage subjects’ private worlds and how mother’s & grandmother’s can do the same; why it was important to show the different stages of love & romance from the teenage girl’s perspective & how similar patterns repeat for women in life’s later years, why the adventures & misadventures the girls go thorough are to be seriously considered and why she wanted to avoid the negative stereotypes associated with teenage girls and focus on the positive.

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Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511153/
 
Sweeties
https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2024/sweeties
 
HOTDOCS
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