Hemel

Name: Hemel
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024
Duration: 30 min

2024 · 30 min

Documentary

Criterion

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.

Crew

Director Danielle Dean
Director of Photography Alberto Balazs

Cast

D
Danielle Dean
Quatermass
A
Andrea Dean
Self
D
Dave Marchant
Barman
B
Brendon Laing
B
Brian Dean
C
Collum Dean
C
Chielota Aneto
C
Chibuikem Aneto
C
Clive Brooks
Man on street
H
Harvey Taylor
G
Godson Leboko
S
Sharon Brobbery

Crew

Director — Danielle Dean
Director of Photography — Alberto Balazs

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