Project Detail

Saintmaking

Synopsis

In the early 90s a group of gay activist nuns, the London House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, decide to canonise Derek Jarman, a prominent queer filmmaker and the most public figure living openly with HIV at the time. They declare him Britain's first living gay saint.
Official Selection Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2022

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Details

Year: 2021
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 23 min 30 sec
Director: Marco Alessi
Producer: Lily Slydel
Executive Producer: Ekaterina Ochagavia, Lindsay Poulton
Editor: Pawe Achtelik
Director of Photography: Stephen James Dunn
Sound: Tom Foskett-Barnes; Sound Recordist: Nick Olorenshaw
Music: Tom Foskett-Barnes
Principal cast: Mark Spencer, Ian Lucas, Adam Jeanes, Kell Farshéa, Willy Hudson, Henry Felix, Jack Sears, Jack Mosedale, Pete Machale, Paul Hilton
Costume (Nun's): Rachel Schofield Owen
Costume Design (Jarman's Robe): Sandy Powell
Costume Maker (Jarman's Robe): Timothy Gibbons

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Human Rights

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Marco Alessi

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