The father-daughter dynamic was a frequent topic of conversation after her first feature-film debut Aftersun, a film about a father and daughter.
She went into finance and rediscovered film through helping Callum Just, a school friend, run Digital Orchard, a post-production and DIT agency.
[5] She used this experience to apply to New York University's joint business and film graduate program with the intention of becoming a producer.
While at NYU, Wells created three short films: Tuesday (2015), about a 16-year-old learning to cope with a big loss, featuring Megan McGill, which earned Wells the Best Writer Nominee at BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards 2016;[6] Laps (2016), about a normal weekday, until the main character is sexually assaulted on the New York subway, featuring Thea Brooks, which earned Wells Special Jury Recognition at the SXSW Short Film Awards and Special Jury Award for Editing at Sundance 2017;[7] and Blue Christmas (2017), about a debt collector who goes to work instead of seeing his wife on Christmas Eve to avoid her worsening psychosis, featuring Jamie Robson and Michelle Duncan.
The adult Sophie is trying to remember her father by looking back on this holiday and piece together her memories with the help of the videos she and he took on vacation.
[10] This camera is used for many of the scenes with Sophie during the holiday, including playing with friends at the resort and spending time with her father.
The 35mm footage is spread throughout the film to intimately depict the father-daughter dynamic from Sophie's perspective.