Bliss Is... (2011) came to fruition after
Brijana Prooker was asked to audition for a PSA in which a woman in love with her boyfriend chastises him for not wearing a condom when they had sex the night before and accuses him of potentially giving her AIDS. Bri wondered why the woman wouldn't have just told her boyfriend to put on a condom before sex and how, if she hadn't told him to, she could put all the blame on him when she chose to have sex with him without a condom. Bri then got to wondering, what if there was a woman who wasn't just irresponsible, but who genuinely didn't know about the repercussions of having sex without a condom until after the fact, what if a woman was so isolated from society that what seems like common knowledge to most was foreign to her. And what if her boyfriend knew but chose not to tell her. A character study was then born, as was
Bliss Is... (2011)