Frankie’s Footballer
Frankie’s Footballer is the first of three short films supported by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s First Light initiative to be created with young budding film makers.
The story centres around Frankie, a young attention starved girl who is desperate to build a relationship with her football mad father, but all he’s got time for is his football team.
Her brother is growing up in her father’s image and shares the football obsession, her mother, bored of her life, has created her own little world, taking very little interest in the real world.
This only leaves Frankie her Grandfather, with whom she’s very close. They both share a passion for science and engineering and spend many hours together inventing and tinkering.
Eventually it all gets too much for Frankie who wants so desperately to win her fathers approval and affection and when Dad’s team is in trouble she sees and opportunity to impress him.
