DEAR PETER : LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Opening with Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Leeds International Film Festival  celebrated it’s 30th year.  My film, Dear Peter screened within the festival’s “Nine Moving Stories: Short Documentary Panorama” programme (English Premier Oi Oi!) which included a Q+A with myself and the filmmakers behind short film, Venus. Good times!

https://vimeo.com/154186380

Venus, a intimate portrait on Venus Dimilo, a female drag performer. The film is directed by Faye Carr-Wilson and produced by Magenta Sharp.

The programme also included These Cocksucking Tears, a film that explores the life of gay country singer Patrick Haggerty who wrote and recorded as Lavender Country, an American country music band formed in 1972. The film has recently won the Jury Prize at SXSW, so it was great to see it projected in Leeds Town Hall!

DEAR PETER : LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Opening with Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Leeds International Film Festival will be running between 3-17 November. Celebrating it’s 30th year, the festival’s programme of documentary shorts will be screening Dear Peter (English Premier Oi Oi!).

Dear Peter screening at Nine Moving Stories: Short Documentary Panorama on Wednesday 9th Nov at 16:30 at Leeds Town Hall – Albert Room.

Meanwhile… Tapes From The Revolutionary will be screening at Leed’s No Gloss Film Festival on 22nd October.

Dear Peter [26mins]
After discovering a large collection of handwritten postcards in a secondhand shop, filmmaker Scott Willis begins a journey to track down their owner. The messages on the postcards create a picture of unknown man called Peter.

But with the collection spanning over seventy years, a reunion seems unlikely. Who was Peter? How did his life end? And what happens to us when our time is up?