Filmed over 52 consecutive Tuesdays with the non-profesional cast being given their scripts one week at a time.
Debut theatrical feature film of actresses Imogen Archer and Tilda Cobham-Hervey and actors Mario Späte, Sam Althuizen, Beau Travis Williams, and Del Herbert-Jane.
Of growing up on screen, lead actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey said:
"When I began working on '52 Tuesdays' I was 16, I had never
had a boyfriend...Over the course of
this project I became an adult, I fell in love, completed
high school, talked about things I had never even let myself
think about, I learnt what sad was and angry was and I
escaped a bubble and learnt about the incredible wonder
and tragedy of the real world. I learnt what the words
'real' and 'true' meant, which are far more wonderful than
any other word in existence. One of the questions that was
often discussed during this process was "are you living an
authentic life?" A loaded question that was my basis for
taking control of my own person and actually deciding how
to get on with this thing called 'growing up'."
The film won the World Dramatic Directing Award (World Cinema - Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
A companion project to this theatrical feature film was 'My 52 Tuesdays'. Publicity for the film said: "My 52 Tuesdays is a worldwide participatory project where
people build and share a unique portrait of a year in
their lives. Every week, every Tuesday, a question is
posed to everyone involved. You answer by writing down
your response and taking your photo with it. [One can] see answers
to the same questions from your closest friends and
creative people all over the world. Share your photos or
keep them private. It is a project about you, set in time,
distinctly personal and lovingly communal, but only if
you choose it to be so, because ultimately it is a project
about choice. How much are you willing to share?
Accessed via smartphones, available in the App Store and
Google Play, and online at www.my52tuesdays.com,
the 'My 52 Tuesdays' interactive photo-booth is a location specific
chance to take a moment to 'tune in' to your life,
get a photo memento, and begin your year-long project."