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Dunce Cap Boy | movie | 2022 | Official Featurette
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6/20/2025
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What's it called? Grade school? Grade school sucks. Kids are mean. I would know I was one of them.
00:09
My name is Cecilia Morris and I'm the co-writer and director of Duns Cat Boy.
00:13
I'm the co-writer and producer.
00:15
I wrote the story and I did some storyboards.
00:18
I am the assistant director on the project Duns Cat Boy.
00:21
I am doing art department with Raquel Palma.
00:24
And I'm doing set design.
00:25
I'm the cinematographer on set.
00:27
You're kind of told this thing when you come into film school.
00:30
Don't have child actors.
00:31
And this project was like, hey, let's get a classroom full of kids and try to make this thing work.
00:37
Duns Cat Boy is about Duns Cat Boy.
00:40
And basically he goes to school, he gets in trouble because he's distracted a lot.
00:45
And so he has to wear Duns Cat and it won't come off.
00:48
His classmates start to bully him and they ostracize him and it goes on for a while.
00:54
And finally a new girl comes along.
00:56
So they start bullying her instead.
00:58
And after a while he kind of joins in.
01:00
He has to make this choice of whether or not he wants to become like his bullies or be different and still be ostracized.
01:09
The audience is going to question, is this a sad story? Is it a happy story?
01:14
And it's kind of this tightrope of in between, but the ending is just so sweet.
01:18
I think that we have all dealt with like bullies growing up, middle school, high school.
01:22
The story is like, it's kind of like it's an emotional road trip.
01:24
It takes us down that struggle and that path.
01:27
It reminds us that we need to always treat others as we want to be treated.
01:32
Standing up for people doesn't go unnoticed.
01:34
I was bullied as a kid, but also I was a bully.
01:38
This film is a really good opportunity for students and families to see a different side of an innocent world that we've lost.
01:49
And needing to stand up for what you believe in.
01:53
It's something that we all need to strive for.
01:56
There have definitely been periods of my life where I felt isolated.
01:59
And I think that this story has a really strong theme of that.
02:04
The main character really portrays kindness very well.
02:07
And I think that if the audience could take away one thing, it would be to learn from his actions and kind of take away from his personality.
02:16
The biggest lesson that I took away from it is the importance of how you see yourself and how you see others.
02:23
I completely fell in love with the characters of Denska Boy and Jenny.
02:28
I really hope that the audience takes away a sense of joy and belonging by watching our film.
02:35
Just like laugh and dance. Life is short.
02:38
If you would like to support us, please consider donating by going to our Indiegogo page.
02:46
If you have the chance of the ability to be awesome, you can support us.
02:49
Give us all of your money. We need it.
02:51
So if you want to go donate, that would be great.
02:54
We'd be very thankful. Thank you.
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