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At the heart of the film and production behind this year’s London Film Festival Audience Award winning feature documentary Holloway, from co-directors Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson, lies a non-negotiable ethos of co-creation and trauma-informed working practices which comes through in the film’s raw, authentic and emotive storytelling. Once Europe’s largest female prison, Holloway has recently been razed to the ground but before this imperious and sociologically significant London landmark was demolished, Compton and Hudson brought together a group of six brave, strong and inspiring women who all spent time behind the intuition’s bars, and created a circle of sisterhood, power and pain to share their lived experiences with each other and through Holloway, us as an audience. Alongside the stories these women share, often with great difficulty, Compton and Hudson take us through the tormented and decaying vestiges of a space which meant so many...

Precocious 11-year-old Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu) and her 24-year-old mother Grace (Déborah Lukumuena) have an intense (if somewhat co-dependent) bond in Girl, the feature debut from writer-director Adura Onashile. Living in a sprawling Glasgow apartment complex, Grace constantly fears that Ama is in danger when she leaves her home alone to work the night shift as a janitor. Perhaps this has to do with Grace’s own traumatic past—a facet of her life she will need to unpack and being to heal from if she wishes to foster a healthy relationship with her daughter, who is on the precipice of puberty and […]

The post “Curiosity and Fear Are Strange Companions”: Editor Stella Heath Keir on Girl first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Precocious 11-year-old Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu) and her 24-year-old mother Grace (Déborah Lukumuena) have an intense (if somewhat co-dependent) bond in Girl, the feature debut from writer-director Adura Onashile. Living in a sprawling Glasgow apartment complex, Grace constantly fears that Ama is in danger when she leaves her home alone to work the night shift as a janitor. Perhaps this has to do with Grace’s own traumatic past—a facet of her life she will need to unpack and being to heal from if she wishes to foster a healthy relationship with her daughter, who is on the precipice of puberty and […]

The post “Curiosity and Fear Are Strange Companions”: Editor Stella Heath Keir on Girl first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.