S4Ep21 Essex Girls – Witches and Stilettos

The dictionary definition of an Essex Girl has been, for some time, a young woman from Essex who is unintelligent, promiscuous and materialistic.

Despite a campaign in recent years to remove this definition, it still sticks, even though you only have to listen to the women who’ve appeared on The Brentwood Buzz in the last three years to find a bunch of intelligent, feisty women who have no qualms about saying what they want, and getting work done.

Now Blatella Films is producing a documentary – Witchcraft & Stilettos: Redefining The Essex Girl Narrative – for upcoming film festivals, and has been in Brentwood for interviews with some of those Essex Girls and women. The Brentwood Buzz was there to speak to director Natalie Scarsbrook.

Thanks to Natalie Scarsbrook at Blatella Films (https://blatella.co.uk/) for the interview and Dr Natasha Radford at the Chicken and Frog Bookshop in Brentwood for the use of the shop for recording.