Project Detail

Rick on the Roof

Name: Rick on the Roof
Director: Isaac Atkin-Mayne
Genre: Biography, Welsh
Released: 2025
Duration: 16 min

Synopsis

In the mid-2000s, Rick Canty lost both his mother and their home in Barry, Wales. Evicted, he climbed onto his roof and stayed there for years in protest. Through candid interviews and archive, RICK ON THE ROOF reveals how a quiet neighbourhood becomes a community, throwing street parties and keeping him alive through storms, until Rick is suddenly injured under mysterious circumstances. Today, amidst the UK’s ongoing cost of living crisis, the community he shaped reflect on the legacy of their local hero. This slightly bizarre, emotional documentary explores one man’s fight for his home.
Official Selection Folkestone Documentary Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 16 min
Director: Isaac Atkin-Mayne
Producer: Nan Davies
Executive Producer: Jude Lister, Jessica Cobham-Dineen
Editor: Danny Robertson
Director of Photography: Lucas Troadec
Sound: Dafydd Weeks, Sam Wiltshire, Ines Adriana
Composer: Tom Rees
Principal cast: Penny Richards, Ruth Schembri, Dougy Jones, Richard Gurner

Genre

Biography Welsh

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by Made of Truth: BFI Doc Society Short Film Fund

One Wave Films

Nan Davies

nan@onewavefilms.co.uk

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