Trailer and poster released for award-winning festival favorite Fitting In, starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire

Available on Digital Download in the UK from 9th September

Story: Ralph Greco, Jr.

London, UK: The Movie Partnership have announced the release of upcoming coming-of-age comedy, Fitting In. Starring Maddie Ziegler (star of Sia’s music videos) and Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek, 12 Monkeys), the film will be released across digital platforms from 9th September.

Directed and written by Molly McGlynn, Fitting In follows 16-year-old Lindy (Maddie Ziegler) who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition, MRKH syndrome. The diagnosis upends her plans to have sex, her presumptions about womanhood and sexuality, her relationship with her mother (Emily Hampshire), and most importantly, herself.

McGlynn, herself diagnosed with MRKH syndrome, says “What starts out as a more traditional coming-of-age “losing your virginity” (quotes because I abhor that phrase) movie gets turned on its head. Fitting In asks big questions that I don’t have all the answers to, but wanted to explore: What is sex? What is gender? What makes a woman if she doesn’t bleed, can’t be penetrated or carry a baby?

I was diagnosed with the reproductive disorder MRKH Syndrome when I was sixteen after I hadn’t gotten my period, despite having a body that my mom seemed nervous about in the world of men. My single mother was recovering from breast cancer and dealing with losing her breast and changing femininity and I was learning I lost things I never even knew I lost in the first place; specifically, a uterus and my vagina, most of it anyway. Crazy, right? I know! I had to make a film about it.”

Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a condition affecting approximately 1 in 5000 female births and leading to the absence or underdevelopment of the uterus, cervix and vagina. There are 2 types of MRKH, Type 1 as typified above and Type 2, in addition to the above may also affect the kidneys, bones, heart or hearing. Find out more and get support here www.mrkhconnect.org

Festivals and Awards

SXSW 2023-Official Selection | tiff 2023-Official Selection | Festival de Deauville 2023-Official Selection | Vancouver International Film Festival 2023-WON Best Canadian Film Award

Watch the trailer here

Fitting In will be available on digital download from 9th September

Pre-order on Apple now

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Writer and director Molly McGlynn available for interview

Molly McGlynn is a writer and director who was born in Montreal to Irish parents and grew up in the United States. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Molly graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a BA(H) in Film Studies and has a graduate certificate from Humber College in Writing & Producing for Television. She is an alumni of the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Writers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, the Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab, the Samsung TIFF Emerging Director programme and was selected as one of twelve writer/directors nationally selected for TIFF Studio. In January 2019, she won the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association for her first feature film, Mary Goes Round, starring Aya Cash and Sara Waisglass.

Mary Goes Round, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and has screened at dozens of film festivals and won multiple awards, including the Panavision Independent Cinema Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Vail Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the Annapolis Film Festival. The film was nominated by the Directors’ Guild of Canada for awards in Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film and Best Editing in a Feature Film.

Selected television credits include Workin’ Moms, The Wonder Years, Grace and Frankie and The Big Door Prize. Additionally, she was the producing director on Season 2 of Bless This Mess.

Her second feature film, Fitting In, (fka Bloody Hell), starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, had its World Premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section in March 2023. Its International Premiere was at the prestigious Deauville American Film Festival and its Canadian premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival. It won Best Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of Canada.

Fitting In was released theatrically in the US (Blue Fox Entertainment) and Canada (Elevation Pictures) in February 2024.

She also hosts the podcast Hello, My Mom is Dead, an honest and authentic look into grief and loss. Her essay writing has appeared on CBC, The Small Bow, The Toronto International Film Festival and She Does The City.

Distributor: The Movie Partnership

Digital Release Date: 9th September

Short Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, 16 year-old Lindy’s life plans are thrown off course when she is diagnosed with a life changing reproductive condition.

Director: Molly McGlynn

Writer: Molly McGlynn

Cast: Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Ki Griffin

Executive Producers: JANELLE MONAE, MIKAEL MOORE, MOLLY MCGLYNN, BRENDEN BRADY, ADRIAN LOVE, LAURIE MAY, JAMES HUNTSMAN, LISA GUTBERLET

Run Time: 105 Minutes

Rating: TBC

Ralph Greco, Jr. is the devilishly clever nom de plume of professional writer/musician Ralph Greco who lives in the wilds of suburban New Jersey. He is also a podcast co-host, but as everyone has a podcast these days, this fact is of very little consequence.Ralph can be reached by writing ralphiedawriter@gmail.com