“Do you have an image from that night?” 16-year-old Mandy (Rhianne Barreto, “Hanna”) is asked in a new trailer for “Share.” The highschooler can’t remember what happened during the night in question. But she can’t forget the disturbing video clip she’s sent of a classmate taking advantage of her while she’s passed out.
Written and directed by Pippa Bianco, the HBO film sees Mandy dealing with the fallout of a party that changes her life. Mandy’s parents are pressuring her to take legal action, but she just wants to know what was done to her. “Nobody made me get drunk,” she tells her father, seemingly trying to take responsibility away from her potential abuser. She even wonders if the school she attends would be “better off” without her there — rather than the boy who may have assaulted her.
“Share” is based on Bianco’s 2015 Cannes award-winning short of the same name. Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) starred in that version of the project.
The feature adaptation of “Share” made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year, where it took home the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Dramatic and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award Achievement in Acting for Barreto. The pic debuts on HBO July 27.