Monaghan Media is proud to announce the completion of Two Blue Lines, a new short film produced by Monaghan Media in partnership with Stockport Youth Pregnancy team, Stockport Youth Theatre and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC).  The film follows a teenage girl's life as she finds herself pregnant, who does she turn to?  Where does she go for help?  What will she do?

Two Blue Lines was written and directed by JC Monaghan of Monaghan Media and was funded by SMBC through Stockport youth Service's 'The Lizard's Lounge' initiative, an empowering and highly successful new way of funding creative opportunities for young people in the borough.

"It has been a long journey" said JC Monaghan, "we started production on the first of August 2009, and we were in pre[-production] in January '09.  Since then we've been in post[-production].  The low budget has forced us to take up double or triple jobs, we've had to think of new and imaginative ways to solve problems.  These things have caused all of us to learn many new skills, and vastly improve our old ones."

Two Blue Lines will be released as a film to the general public, distributed by Monaghan Media, and will also be released in schools and youth centres along with an education pack.

JC Monaghan is keen to dispel any suggestion that this film is an 'educational film'.  "It most certainly isn't an educational film, though I suspect the funding body expected a pretty dull educational film with low production values, all of us were certain from the start that this film would be that; a solid 'Film', which could, incidentally, be used in an educational environment."

"History shows us that educational films are often poorly made, poorly presented and cheesy, really, really cheesy, they rarely actually relate to the audience, and as such are a massive waste of everybody's time.  I have no interest in making such a film.  This is a good, solid drama, with real characters, a proper storyline and high-production values.  We spent a lot of time talking to real young people who've been through the journey that our characters have, and the film is constructed almost entirely from some of the stories."

"The fact that this is a young-person-led project, and that all of the key creative people involved are young people means that the film really relates to the audience, and our test screenings have backed that up."

Monaghan Media are now looking at and developing a release plan for Two Blue Lines, "We want the film to reach as many people as possible, we are looking at YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, BitTorrent, independent websites.  We want everyone to see the film."

Two Blue Lines will be released in the first term of the 2010/11 academic year by Monaghan Media.

More information will be released soon, along with a complete section of this website dedicated to it.

JC Monaghan and some other key members of the cast & crew are available for comment sometimes, for more information about this or the film in general please use the 'Contact Us' page linked on the Nav-Bar at the top of this page.

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