Documentary · United Kingdom · 2024 · 30m

Hemel

Director

Danielle Dean

Cast

Danielle Dean as Quatermass Andrea Dean as Self Dave Marchant as Barman Brendon Laing as Brian Dean as Collum Dean as

Crew

Alberto Balazs — Director of Photography Luke W Moody — Producer

Synopsis

Hemel is an intimate portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where Danielle Dean was raised, and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history as a planned community under the New Towns Act of 1946. Filmed in 16mm with an ensemble of non-actors and family, Hemel blurs fiction and documentary and to considers the race, class, and labour dynamics of a small English town in the post-Brexit context.

Key Collaborators

Danielle Dean Director Alberto Balazs Director of Photography Luke W Moody Producer

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