Project Detail

Here for Life

Synopsis

They say freedom's only possible when there's nothing left to lose. But what, in the end, is the real cost of living?
In a city framed by capital and loss, ten unruly Londoners navigate their wild and wayward way, travelling on their own terms towards a co-existence far stronger than 'community'. On reclaimed land they find themselves on the right side of history, caught between two train tracks, the present tense and future hopes. They question who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed, in an often contradictory rite of passage. Finding solidarity in resistance, they demand the right to go on.
An uncommon story told on common ground, Here for Life dances with a spirited grace and urgency, hovering between fiction and fact, attention and act.
Sometimes we simply need to hear our stories told by someone else...
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Filmmakers of the Present Competition - World premiere

Details

Year
2019
Type of project
Features
Running time
90 min
Format
HD
Director
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson 1st Feature
Producer
The Artangel Trust
Executive Producer
James Lingwood, Michael Morris and Cressida Day
Editor
Grant Gee
Director of Photography
Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Production Designer
Fred Meller
Sound
Marie Tueje
Composer
Richard Honeyghan aka MILO
Principal cast
Jo Galbraith, Jake Goode, Richard Honeyghan, Kamby Kamara, Errol McGlashan, Patrick Onione, Ben Smithies, Floria Twyman, Jono Whitty and Sasha Winslow
Production Note
Devised by the performers, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson with Therese Henningsen

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Production Status

Production Company

The Artangel Trust

31 Eyre St Hill
London
EC1R 5EW

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