Hemel (2024)
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.
- Date of release
- 2024-10-19
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Danielle Dean
Casting
- Danielle Dean — Quatermass
- Andrea Dean — Self
- Dave Marchant — Barman
- Brendon Laing
- Brian Dean
- Collum Dean
- Chielota Aneto
- Chibuikem Aneto
- Clive Brooks — Man on street
- Harvey Taylor
- Godson Leboko
- Sharon Brobbery
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