Hemel

Hemel

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 2024

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Hemel

Production Companies

LONO studio

Director

Danielle Dean

Description

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.