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?

EYE FOR FILM : DEAR PETER

★★★★ Dear Peter

Dear Peter reviewed by Andrew Robertson for Eye For Film. Can be read here.

Dear Peter

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?