Project Detail

The Street

Synopsis

As the glinting steel and mirror-glass skyscrapers of London’s financial hub edge ever closer, the area surrounding Hoxton Street has been transformed by hyper-gentrification and sky-high property prices. A traditional East London street less than a mile from the City of London – it is now the last bastion of the areas disadvantaged – a concentration of the aged, poor and dispossessed. Hoxton Street’s close-knit working-class community has absorbed waves of immigrants since the 1950s. But as traditional industry has withered, the latest influx of young urban hipsters followed closely by expensive restaurants, digital media start-ups and corporate property developers has brought a deepening sense of inequality. Sensing they have been left out of the changes swirling around them, the street’s ageing white residents, who lament the loss of their jobs and former ways of life, mirror the 52% of Britons who voted to leave the EU.
Focusing on one street and its inhabitants over a four-year period, and set against the upheavals of rapid gentrification, years of austerity, the fallout from Grenfell and the eruption of Brexit, the film offers a revealing portrait of life in London today.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Debate Strand - World premiere

Details

Year
2019
Type of project
Features
Running time
94 min
Format
HD
Director
Zed Nelson 1st Feature
Producer
Zed Nelson
Executive Producer
Christo Hird
Editor
Julian Rodd; Online Editor: Gareth Parry
Director of Photography
Zed Nelson
Sound
Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer: Markus Moll; Additional Location Sound Recordings: Michael Griggs
Composer
Rachel Portman, Idris Rahman, Tom Kincaid, Colin Allen
Co-Director Hackney Marshes scenes
Pinny Grylls

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

WagonTrail Productions

65 Mildmay Park
London
N1 4NB

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