Filmmaker Statement

I started making this film 8 years ago after reading a Danish study which had found that teenage girls on the combined contraceptive pill were 80% more likely to be prescribed antidepressants than those not. This was totally unsurprising to me. Through years of trial and error, and many conversations with friends and family, I had become familiar with the range of mental health side effects that come with taking hormonal birth control. However, this was not something that was reflected at the doctors, sexual health clinic, or even in my sex education at school. I wanted to examine this knowledge gap between patient and medical professional, and highlight how much we learn from each other, showing the importance of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing when it comes to reproductive health.