A teenage girl joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in their hedonistic lifestyle as they tour the Midwest. The film stars Sasha Lane and was directed by Andrea Arnold, who cast her actors by approaching people on the street. It had a $3.5 million production budget and was filmed across several Midwestern states in the United States.

1. AMERICAN HONEY
By Holly Connell

3. American Honey
■ The genre is a British-American drama road film written and directed by British filmmaker
Andrea Arnold.
■ The film stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. It is Arnold's first film to be set
and filmed outside of the United Kingdom.
■ A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up
in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest
with a band of misfits.

4. Production companies
The majority include Parts and Labor, British Film Institute (BFI), Film4, Maven Pictures,
Pulse Films.
■ The main production company was the BFI, the company is over 84 years old.

6. Production
■ The production budget cost $3.5 million
■ The locations used to film include Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and
North Dakota so only in the US.
■ Casting[edit]
■ Arnold "street cast" by searching beaches, streets, and approaching drunk
teenagers.[18] Arnold discovered Sasha Lane while she was on spring break with her
friends; Lane decided to audition for the film and won the lead role.[19][20][21][22] The
remainder of the cast were found in parking lots, construction sites, streets, and state
fairs