F234 Film Production is excited to announce their first feature film “FUCK BOYS” which is NOT a Romantic Movie...

From Writer/Director Dilenia Rodriguez and Creative Producer Kara Fan, the film follows the coming of age story of a Black, Caribbean girl named Ella, played by the talented actress Elizabeth Baker. Set in the artists’s picturesque rendering of Brooklyn, New York. Ella encounters the bitter realities of romantic relationships with boys in the late 2010’s. The film explores the different archetypes from the funny, easy to digest Fboys to the traumatic. With an ensemble cast of New York City actors, she tells a tale of disillusionment in romance. Instead the film offers the hope that lies within girl friendships, to save her from the worst outcome.

With the production of this first feature length film, F234 implements its vision as a company that strives to practice inclusivity in filmmaking. Beginning with open auditions for actors and crew to meet. The group developed on a mission to ratify the stories of those who often go unseen and unrepresented both in front of the camera and behind.
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Image 4 Caption: (From Left To Right) Production Assistant Luca Depardon, Executive and Creative Producer Kara Fan, Assistant Director Denver Avery Woodcock, Photographer Khalil Joseph, (In Front) Director of Photography Dazhi Huang, Assistant Camera Santiago Nicolas Pineda, (In Back) supporting actress Kiko Nakadai who plays Clarity, Supporting Actress Megan Boehmcke who plays Julia and supporting actress Whitney Sarah Louis who plays Alice. On set of the College party scene where crew members had to step in as extras.

This film was written throughout the years of the Me Too movement. When the girls were just learning how to speak about rape, and the ways in which our society enables it. It was written while the terms were developing. When we started coining the term “fuckboy” for men who intentionally manipulate and abuse without regard for the human life affected. It’s the phenomenon occurring today where men are taught to use all tactics of misogyny to satisfy a sexual urge.

The term is evolving so rapidly that we can see it mutate into some kind of wanted label for young boys that see themselves as conquerors of women’s bodies. The film was written with young girls in mind, so that they’re aware that boys will not always come with flowers and good intentions. In conversations with Kara Fan, the Executive and Creative Producer for the film, we spoke about the ways in which we, as a society, invalidate young girl’s experiences from a young age.

We’ve been teaching girls that they should be afraid of men and their intentions, but have shamed them and blamed them when bad things happened to them. In effect closing the door in their faces, and leaving them to fend for themselves in a society where men are taught to hunt for them. In talking about these issues and making a film about it, we are putting the girl’s experience in the foreground in the hopes of illustrating and explaining some of the most common experiences women encounter coming of age with online dating and the kind of relationship culture that has taken place mainstream.
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Image 5 Caption: F@#$ Boys Movie Poster featuring illustrations of Ella and the FBoys in escalating order. Illustration by Dilenia Rodriguez