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This project successfully funded on 4th June 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Sissy Puss
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Aim: Sissy Puss is a dialogue-less, apartment folk horror following eccentric loner Kat who is stunned out of her bizarre routine by ethereal Cat
Themes
Sissy Puss is a highly stylised surrealist reimagining of the Sisyphean tale that explores isolation and the co-dependency that it breeds. The Sisyphean cycle is used as a metaphor within the film to look at how routines have come to pervade our everyday lives. Sissy Puss questions if these routines are hindering opportunities for connection, and how we use them to maintain tight control over our deepest desires and ultimately what would force us to confront these desires in a truly meaningful way.
Story
Kat lives alone, her flat equal parts sumptuous and suffocating. She’s performing her strange daily ritual until she is disrupted, catching sight of Cat in the garden. It is with the animal impulse that Kat knows she must have her. Together, they wreak havoc upon the flat, and their feral mania becomes increasingly intimate. However, the outside world threatens to claim Cat back.
Why You Should Get Involved
Sissy Puss touches on very contemporary issues such as loneliness, nature, co-dependency and sapphic desire. However, the story is not told in a way that has been seen before. The film is heavily stylised through stunning production design, costume, sound design, and score; everything within the film has been carefully considered and curated. Although the film explores serious themes, it does so in a new and compelling way that aims to push these narratives into new directions for a new generation. The film is ambitious in its artistic scope and boasts an up-and-coming crew that has created a truly unique world within the film. Donating to this Crowdfunder would be a way to support us in ensuring their work and this story get in front of audiences.
We are offering rewards for donations
IMDB thank you credits (£5)
A deleted scene from the film (£10)
A Sissy Puss Poster - see below - (£20)
An exclusive password-protected screener to the film (£50)
Where Does Your Money Go?
Film festivals are expensive! With your support, Sissy Puss will be able to apply to just under 25 film festivals to make sure the film is seen by a wide audience. The team plans to apply to the major short film festivals in the UK. Internationally, we will be applying to experimental short film festivals and queer film festivals. Your money will go directly to submission fees for these festivals, which vary from £15 to £40 each. This was an independently produced short, and we were unable to pay our incredible cast and crew. We want to make sure that the effort they put into this incredible film is showcased and their efforts recognised both at home and internationally on the film festival circuit.
The People
Writer/ Director
Lara Delmage
Lara is a Glasgow-based writer/director whose work delights in a celebration and interrogation of the beautiful and the unsettling, working with film, TV, poetry, and theatre. She was selected as one of Glasgow Film Festival’s New Talent Mentees (2024/5), and is working on her next short, Lido, as part of the NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab (2025/6).
Producer
Balenji
Balenji is a short film producer and freelance development and production coordinator. She produces work that is ambitious in artistic scope, with strong narratives that move away from dominant perspectives.
Executive Producer
Niamh West
Niamh West is an Irish producer based in Scotland and the founder of FlowerPunk Films, which focuses on female, femme, and queer stories. She has produced award-winning short films, including HANGNAIL and Popper. Her recent project, Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak, directed by Heath Virgoe, won Best Scottish Film at the Scottish Queer International Film Festival and has screened at several festivals, most recently BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
DOP/ Colour Grade
Jacob Gandy
Jacob Ceris Gandy is a Glasgow-based freelance filmmaker. They often create self-shot music videos or collaborate with directors as a cinematographer
Editor
Eva Magdić Govendarica
Eva is a Croatian filmmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland, with a degree in editing and cinematography. Whether through autobiographical practice, work with documentary subjects, or previous coursework, they use archival footage, reflections, abstractions, and a touch of humour to promote migrant, queer, and feminist stories.
Sond Designer
George Palmer
George Palmer is a sound recordist and sound designer based in Edinburgh/Glasgow. Coming from a background as a musician and poet, sound, its creation and manipulation, has always been a part of his creative identity. He takes joy in crafting unique worlds layered with meaning and texture, which serve as an extension of the emotion and feeling of a film. He was drawn to the creative opportunity and freedom of sound designing a project with no dialogue like Sissy Puss. This gave him an opportunity to explore meaning-making in a more abstract and symbolic way through soundscape.
Production Designer
Zofia Klim (she/her) is a Polish-born Costume Designer and Production Designer. Zofia enjoys stories of surreal quality and other fantasies. With 3 years experience in costume designing for theatre and short film, her recent work includes music video 'Jennifer Aniston' for Goodnight Louisa and film 'Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak', which won the award for Best Scottish Film at the Scottish Queer International Film Festival.