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A short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. Through a series of recorded telephone conversations and reconstructive visuals, the film uses the helpline as a lens through which to view the experiences of LGBTQ people in the British farming community. In a world that prizes traditional masculinity and in which ideas of ancestry are fundamental, being gay can be isolating. Candid, intimate and shocking, the film offers a snapshot of a group of people bound together by circumstance, but so often disconnected from each other.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - International premiere

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Year: 2018
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 13 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Matt Houghton
Producer: Alistair Payne-James, Rupert Williams
Executive Producer: James Sorton
Editor: Matt Houghton
Screenwriter: Matt Houghton
Director of Photography: James Blann
Production Designer: Guy Thompson
Sound: Alex Bingham
Music: Noah Wood
Principal cast: Jem Dobbs, Jonathan Blake, Alex Thompson, Niamh Blackshaw, Oliver Devoti, Bradley Johnson, Valerie Bundy
Associate Producers: James Spinney, Peter Middleton

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

A Pulse Films and Fee Fie Foe production with support of Film London, BFI NETWORK, Creative Skillset

Pulse Films

17 Hanbury Street
London
E1 6QR

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c/o Matt Houghton

matt.r.houghton@gmail.com

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