FAME hit the snowy sidewalks of Park City with boots on the ground and noses in other people’s business—the good kind. At the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, we caught up with the women behind Extra Geography, a film that is anything but extra in the cringe sense.

Meet the Crew: Women Who Do Their Homework

Let’s start with the director, Molly Manners, who makes her feature debut after directing One Day (yes, the one that had people sobbing on Netflix and tweeting emotional damage memes). Her entrance into cinema? As smooth as a prefect’s lecture on punctuality. She’s teamed up with writer Miriam Battye, who’s penned lines for Succession and brings that same awkward wit and brutal emotional honesty to two British boarding school girls trying—and failing—to be cool about love.

Producer Sarah Brocklehurst, now on her third all-female team Sundance premiere, clearly has a type. And it’s talented women who don’t shy away from messy emotional truth.

The Cast? Fresh-Faced, Fully Armed

Marni Duggan and Galaxie Clear, relative unknowns before this, are now officially on FAME’s radar. These two don’t perform so much as explode on screen. Duggan’s Flic is academic, intense, a little self-righteous. Clear’s Minna is all heart and chaos and cracked eyeliner. They’re obsessed with getting into the best university... until they decide their summer project will be to “fall in love.” The subject of this scientific experiment? Their own geography teacher, Miss Delavigne.

Yes, you read that correctly. Miss Delavigne.

Teenage Chaos, Handled With Care

What starts as a joke quickly turns serious. As the girls rehearse A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a nearby boys’ school, their game gets blurry. It’s hard to tell whether they’re acting or feeling. Are they falling in love with someone else? With each other? Or are they just terrified of growing up and losing the only person who really gets them?

Brocklehurst told FAME the goal was to keep it intimate but never cutesy. “We weren’t trying to make a ‘high school movie,’” she said, “we were trying to show how intense and hilarious and heartbreaking that time in your life really is.” Mission accomplished.

We Came. We Asked Questions. We Got the Tea.

During our time at The Library Theater, FAME’s crew caught up with the Extra Geography team right before the screening. Manners spoke about wanting the film to feel “like flipping through an old diary you forgot you wrote—but it's funny now, not mortifying.” She also praised casting director Lucy Pardee (who clearly has an eye for raw talent—Aftersun, Rocks, Die My Love, ring any bells?) for finding Duggan and Clear.

Extra Geography doesn’t pretend to be deep. That’s the trick. It’s smart without trying, funny without being mean, and tender without getting syrupy. It knows exactly what it is and lets the audience feel the weight of girlhood without overexplaining it.

If you missed the press line (rookie mistake), just know the Extra Geography team came prepared, styled, and sweetly chaotic. FAME will definitely be keeping tabs on what these women do next. And next time someone asks if a boarding school film can actually break your heart while making you laugh? Just say yes. But only if it’s Extra Geography.