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14.02.2023 - 21:23 / deadline.com
When Pamela Ribon set out to adapt her memoir into an animated short, producer Jeanette Jeanenne suggested director Sara Gunnarsdóttir to direct. This collaboration led to a comedic animated short that won awards at multiple festivals before finally receiving an Oscar nomination. My Year of Dicks, based on a chapter of Ribon’s memoir Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public, follows a 15-year-old Pam on a comedic journey to find the right boy to lose her virginity to. The animated short is split into five chapters, each following the story of a different crush with a different style of animation.
DEADLINE: How did this short come about? When did you decide to make an animated short based on your memoir?
PAMELA RIBON: The idea for the short came about from FX networks, when we had been talking about what I could try in the animation pipeline. They had looked over a few of my things and Megan Reid really responded to my Notes to Boys book and talked about how animation can really enrich a young female protagonist’s fantasy life, which the book is all about – me just outta my league. I was raised on romance novels and films in the ’80s, so I was ready to get it done because that’s what I thought you were supposed to do – you only became a woman once you lost your virginity. And we had the idea that you could really play with all these different animated genres. And then Jeanette had been told the vague idea, as she’s produced other things for FX networks, and Sara was on the top of her list. I saw her stuff and I was thought they were incredible. Her work on The Diary of a Teenage Girl, I already knew, but I hadn’t seen The Case Against Adnan Syed where she had done the diaries of Hae Min Lee. And it
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Selome Hailu “My Year of Dicks” is headed to Hulu on Feb. 17. The short film that tickled many at the 2023 Oscar nominations as Riz Ahmed read (and giggled at) its title hails from FX Productions. It was initially produced as a part of the FXX animated anthology series “Cake” before the company encouraged writer Pamela Ribon and her team to take it on the film festival circuit, where it picked up enough awards and attention to land a nod for best animated short. Based on Ribon’s memoir “Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public),” “My Year of Dicks” is a romantic comedy set in 1991. Pam is trying very hard to lose her virginity, but it doesn’t match up to her fantasies. While searching for her ultimate partner and going through puberty, she meets up with goths, skaters, indie film snobs and straight edge posers and tries her best to avoid being grounded.
In a deal between Hulu and FX Productions, the studio’s Oscar-nominated animated short film My Year of Dicks will be available for streaming beginning Friday, February 17 on the streaming service. The move will give the short increased visibility well ahead of final Oscar voting which begins on March 2 and runs through March 7.