CHEERLEADERS - Raindance Film Festival

POLICEMAN 1 & 2 both lunge for her and she vaults over their
backs, grabbing one of their helmets. This girl can move.
She plonks the helmet on her head, cheekily. Then clocks the
fury on their faces.
Run!
FREY (CONT’D)
EXT. NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL. STREET. DAY
The GIRLS hare around a corner and suddenly, we’re in the
chaotic and colourful world of the Notting Hill Carnival.
Crowds, food stalls, flags, floats and dancing. The GIRLS,
pursued by the POLICEMEN, chase through this kaleidoscope of
culture.
In contrast to the lumbering POLICEMEN, there’s an energy and
grace to the GIRLS as they tumble under and over barriers,
through stalls and past people.
But the POLICEMEN gain on them as TALIA starts to lag behind.
Thinking quick, FREY pulls TALIA into the PACKED CROWD ahead.
JOKÉ follows.
EXT. NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL. CRUSHING CROWDS. DAY
The GIRLS weave their way through the CROWD and hit a
barrier. Nowhere to run. FREY looks around, thinking
furiously.
The POLICEMEN, huffing and puffing, arrive. Where are the
girls? POLICEMAN 1 points into the PARADE.
FREY, TALIA and JOKÉ are dancing on a moving samba float as
it recedes into the distance.
POLICEMAN 2 sternly notes the grin on POLICEMAN 1’s face.
POLICEMAN 1 hastily straightens it.
EXT. NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL. SAMBA FLOAT. DAY
FREY tosses the POLICEMAN’s helmet into the CROWD and stics
on a HEAD-DRESS, grinning as the POLICEMEN struggle over the
barrier.
The GIRLS move with the SAMBA DANCERS, sticking out but now,
somehow part of the show. Charged with adrenaline, they dance
and smile and shout as we watch them float away...
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Stock images of American Cheerleading from the 20’s up to the
present day. It’s gentle, wholesome, sunny until we...
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