Between is a feature film feature drama that challenges how the UK treats asylum seekers. As populism and insecurity continue to spiral in the UK, this film follows the journey of one asylum seekers as he negotiates this increasingly hostile environment.
Between is the story of PETROS (25), an asylum seeker who is sent to the seaside town of Hastings to wait for his appeal. The Home Office dictates how he can live. He receives a pittance in support, is not allowed to work and knows little about how his case will be decided. He no longer feels like a man. Then Petros meets ANNA (22), a British university student in her final year, and things seem like they will change. Petros and Anna start to fall in love, despite warnings from friends and family that this relationship cannot work. But very quickly his uncertain status becomes an obstacle. When the Home Office rejects his appeal, Petros pushes Anna away. It is the beginning of a downhill spiral. A technicality means Petros can appeal again. Petros pulls himself together and Anna agrees to give him another chance. Petros must learn to live in the present rather than for a future that may never come.
Between is a political coming of twenty something story, that combines Limbo (Ben Sharrock: 2020) with Shall We Dance (Misayuko Suo:1996). The script is written by Catherine Donaldson and Abel Osman. Abel is a former asylum seeker and Catherine has spent over five years working with asylum seekers in Hastings. The film’s target audience are students aged 18-27 and people who have interested in travel, migration or community.
A day in the life of an asylum seeker (2017, drama, 20 mins)
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His Girl came out of a collaborative process between London Bubble’s LB+, Marie Vickers and Catherine Donaldson as Addition Films. Our way of working evolved when we were working on a project that London Bubble was running with Southwark Youth Offending Services to help start conversations about what is a healthy relationship among young people. Last year we, as a group, decided to come together again to make His Girl. We took the characters we created in the project and developed them further by using theatre games, improvisation and exercises on the details of life to develop the script, performances and choreography. This ensures that motivation marks the movement and position of the camera and the actors in the frame, giving them the framework to play freely. We continued to develop this with the follow up short His Girl 2. The method produces moving and truthful results as it keeps the dialogue fresh and authentic, and leaves the audience wanting to know more.
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