Chelsea Lupkin

If you’ve ever been dumped before, you’ll appreciate how much Your Hands captures the feeling of trying to look fine on the outside but feeling like your life is falling apart on the inside. Georgia King (The New Normal, Vice Principals) not only stars in the short, but also wrote and directed what is a highly theatrical comedy set inside a subway car – the perfect place to encounter every kind of character in all walks of life.

The film’s central theme is simply the sensation of missing holding hands with the one you love and the implications of that notion. Visually the film feels like an Edgar Wright film with the charm of a YouTube comedy in all its campy glory. There are also a ton of visual effects and exaggerated performances akin to a play. When you get to the crude rap, you may be in tears from laughing.

King elaborates on what inspired the short: “I developed this concept while navigating my way through the end of my first long term relationship… I wanted to explore the contradiction I felt during this break up. The contradiction between my grief, pain and disappointment and my determination to appear in control and accepting. I learnt that it is not weak to be honest, that it is not weak to be afraid of the end of something. I hoped that I could relate that with the end of one chapter there is the potential for the beginning of a new and exciting chapter.”

Georgia King’s performance will charm you just as she charmed those who funded her Kickstarter Campaign to make her film a reality. She even convinced CBS Radford Studios in Hollywood to let her film in their lot on a sound stage in order to capture the magic of those visual effects. Your Hands has been selected at Palms Springs, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Portland Film Festival. You can also catch King in the new HBO series Vice Principles premiering this July!