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Janey

Synopsis

This film follows comedian Janey Godley on her 2023 Not Dead Yet Tour, after her diagnosis for ovarian cancer. Janey tours with her best mate Shirley, and daughter comedian Ashley Storrie. Intercut with her stand up we tell the story of her extraordinary life, told with her trademark take-no-prisoners honesty and dark humour.
Janey grew up in poverty in Glasgow’s East End, her mother was an alcoholic. As a child Janey was sexually abused by her uncle. Janey tells the story of her mother's horrific murder, when Janey was 21, revisiting the river where her mother’s body was found.
Age 19 Janey married into a notorious family of Glasgow gangsters, running a successful pub for them. When she and her husband fell out with his family Janey reinvented herself as a comedian. Janey talks about the sense of freedom tinged with guilt that she experienced when she became a comic, choosing to work away from her young daughter.
Throughout the film Janey deals with the grim reality of stage 3 cancer, along with the highs and lows of touring, ending in an emotional show at Glasgow's 3,000-seater SEC.
Official selection Glasgow International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Features
Running time: 78 min
Format: 4k
Director: John Archer 1st Feature
Producer: John Archer
Executive Producer: Clara Glynn, David Harron, Mark Thomas.
Editor: James Alcock
Director of Photography: Laura Kingwell
Composer: John Lemke
Principal cast: Janey Godley, Ashley Storrie, Nicola Sturgeon, Jimmy Carr, Shirley Doig