🏊🏿♂️ We’re proud to lead the impact campaign advancing festival inclusion for 'Can’t Float', a warm, short comedy inspired by a true story, following a 30-something year old Black man who confronts his lifelong fear of swimming.
What begins as a personal challenge gradually reveals deeper cultural and historical layers, examining how race, access, and inherited anxieties shape who feels welcome in the water. 🌊
Anchored by humor and vulnerability, 'Can’t Float', directed by Dave Schilling (and based on his popular Guardian article, 🔗 in bio), explores the quiet courage it takes to face long-held fears, reclaim agency, and try something new later in life, offering a resonant and relatable story about growth, belonging, and the ripple effects of representation.
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This is just one of those HUGE THANK YOU POSTS to our cast and crew that made Can’t Float happen. Stay tuned for updates and perhaps even some more behind-the-scenes tomfoolery. ✌🏼
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NEW FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Can’t Float is joining the Official Selection at this year’s British Urban Film Festival
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Finally home, but missing my other home. Thank you, as always, London. You are the greatest city in the world. No spoilers for the Virgin Island series 2 finale, please.
Thrilled to share our trailer has received over 200K views! Thank you all so much and we are thrilled to be screening at @bufilmfest next! Stay tuned for more 🏖️
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If you don’t know, my Substack is back at daveschilling.substack.com. It’s a REAL hoot, folks. This week, I’m exploring the wonderland that is Venice. Plz subscribe to make this lil angel sing.
FEAR RUNS DEEP… BUT SO DOES COURAGE
“CAN’T FLOAT” is powerful, personal, and deeply moving.
One young man.
One fear he can’t escape.
One history that made it even heavier.
Learning to swim becomes more than survival—
it becomes a fight against stereotypes, against the past, against everything holding him under.
💥 This is about breaking barriers.
💥 This is about reclaiming space.
💥 This is about rising—no matter what.
Because sometimes… staying afloat is the real victory.
⏳ Don’t miss this
Festival tickets available @
🌐 britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
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