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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

Details

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
Composer
Noah Wood
Principal cast
Jem Dobbs, Jonathan Blake, Alex Thompson, Niamh Blackshaw, Oliver Devoti, Bradley Johnson, Valerie Bundy
Associate Producers
James Spinney, Peter Middleton

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Production Company

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

Sales Company

c/o Matt Houghton

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