My Year of Dicks

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sara Gunnarsdóttir directs. Sara Gunnarsdóttir behind the camera. Sara Gunnarsdóttir cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in French, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 26-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 3 years ago.
• 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, English.
• 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 5Directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir, shot by Sara Gunnarsdóttir. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 6Editor Sara Gunnarsdóttir shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 7Brie Tilton and Jackson Kelly and Klarissa Hernandez carry the top of the cast.
• 8Marketing tagline: "Because everybody has one.".
• 9IMDB entry: tt17663790 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 10Only 59 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
• 11Classified under 11 themes, including "friendship", "houston, texas", "coming of age", "teenage girl".

The technical file

Cinematography

Sara Gunnarsdóttir

Editing

Sara Gunnarsdóttir

Sound

Trevor Gates

Runtime

26 min · 0h 26m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

NR

IMDB

My Year of Dicks (2023) ↗

Also by

Sara Gunnarsdóttir

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  Sugarcube

  2009 · ★ 5.0

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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Community reviews

What people are saying

• CinemaSerf2026-06-12
  ★ 7/10

  "Pam" is really struggling with her hormones. She is determined, even if the male gene pool around her is as deep as a puddle in the Arizona desert in July, to get laid. What now ensues follows her on a series of escapades where she finds herself tantalisingly close to her goal - only to, well chop things short. It's not that her spirit isn't willing, it's that somewhere even deeper inside her than her longing there is an annoying element of self respect that stops her from taking the plunge with geeks, dweebs or snobs all after the same quickie as her. Is she becoming desperate? Well yes. Well no. What's more, the more acommodating her would be suitors prove to be the less she finds shaggable about them. The floor of the broom cupboard in the cinema might be the final straw and maybe she ought just to give up - unless, perhaps, she can finally alight on someone just that little bit normal who might have been way closer to home all along. What chance, though? The animation is all pretty standard here, but the writing is what helps this stand out. It doesn't just wallow in the stereotypical, though there is a bit of that, but instead provides us with an observation from a feminine perspective that shows women to be just as sexually curious and desirous as any of her testicularly challenged contemporaries. Isn't it odd that so many words for penis - dick, cock, prick, knob - are also disparaging terms for their owners, too?

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Rooster Teeth Productions

  US

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  FX Productions

  US

• WO

  Wonder Killer

• CA

  Cat's Pajamas

Key crew

• MusicAdam Blau
• Executive ProducerSara Gunnarsdóttir
• Executive ProducerJeanette Jeanenne
• Executive ProducerPamela Ribon
• Sound DesignerTrevor Gates
• EditorSara Gunnarsdóttir
• ProducerJeanette Jeanenne
• ProducerPamela Ribon

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• friendship
• houston, texas
• coming of age
• teenage girl
• sexual awakening
• sex comedy
• woman director
• virginity
• 1990s
• short film
• sex

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2022-03-17· South by Southwest Film Festival
• Theatrical (limited)2023-02-17NR
• Digital2023-02-17R· Hulu