Two best friends, Kelly and Rachel, make a pact not to have sex without the consultation of the other. Watch to find out how they navigate a world of new situations, romance, hormones and promises. We promise you will laugh at least once! This Scenarios USA film lasts 10 minutes.

Writer Janet Aponte, 16, on set

“I didn’t write this film to go out and tell people that sex is bad. As Kelly [the main character] said herself, ‘Sex can be good, sex can be bad. It all depends on your position.’ …But I do think that young people—the guys as well as the girls—need to have a clear understanding of their own ‘whys’ and be comfortable with them. —Janet Aponte, 16

Aponte wrote From an Objective Point of View as part of a writing contest sponsored by Scenarios USA. Janet formed a unique friendship with husband and wife filmmakers Jim McKay and Hannah Weyer as they spent over four months transforming her short story into a shooting script. The team met bimonthly in Jim and Hannah’s apartment in New York’s Lower East Side, with Janet’s mom and the directors’ newborn baby watching in the background as the excitement unfolded.

From an Objective Point of View was directed by Jim McKay (Our Song) and Hannah Weyer (La Boda), shot by Lee Daniel (Slacker, Dazed & Confused) and produced by Avram Ludwig (Swingers; Fast Food, Fast Women) and stars Melonie Diaz and Judy Marte (Raising Victor Vargas).