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Saintmaking

Saintmaking/MarcoAlessi

Synopsis

In the early 90s a group of gay activist nuns, the London House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, decide to canonise Derek Jarman, a prominent queer filmmaker and the most public figure living openly with HIV at the time. They declare him Britain's first living gay saint.
Official Selection Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
http://www.marcoalessi.com/saintmaking

Details

Year: 2021
Type of film: Shorts
Running Time: 23 min 30 sec
Director: Marco Alessi
Producer: Lily Slydel
Executive Producer: Ekaterina Ochagavia, Lindsay Poulton
Editor: Paweł Achtelik
Director of Photography: Stephen James Dunn
Sound: Tom Foskett-Barnes
Music: Tom Foskett-Barnes
Principal Cast: Mark Spencer, Ian Lucas, Adam Jeanes, Kell Farshéa, Willy Hudson, Henry Felix, Jack Sears, Jack Mosedale, Pete Machale, Paul Hilton
2nd Unit Cam: Bill Merner 1st AC

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Last updated 11th January 2023

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