The Left Behind

The Left Behind (2019)

Support for the far right is growing in Britain’s post-industrial towns and cities. This factual drama from the BAFTA-winning team behind Killed By My Debt and the Murdered by… films tells the story of a young man with no secure job, housing or future as he is drawn into a devastating hate crime. A steel-tipped state of the nation drama based on deep research into the realities of life in ‘forgotten Britain.’

Date of release
2019-07-10
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
59m
Genres
Drama
Director
Joseph Bullman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Left Behind is a 2019 British television film drama, written by Alan Harris and directed by Joseph Bullman for BBC Studios. It stars Sion Daniel Young, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Kimberley Nixon. It was shown on BBC One on 10 July 2019. It won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 2020 as well as the Royal Television Society award in the same category.

Production

The production was first inspired by a 2018 statistic that referrals to the UK government's de-radicalisation programme, Prevent, had a 36% rise in the previous 12 months.

Choosing to set the drama in an unnamed town in South Wales, writer Alan Harris set to demonstrate how “perception of the far right in this country is outdated…We think of skinheads and National Front marches. But things have changed – especially in terms of the online influence” and that “we tend to either demonise this problem or ignore it.” Researching the project, the production used literature from Hope not Hate and spoke to Prevent consulta…

Sion Daniel Young lived locally to the production and wrote a letter to director Bulman asking to be considered for the lead role and turned down a guaranteed part in a film in order to be available for the role. Aimee-Ffion Edwards said she wanted to be part of the cast after reading the script and praised the production team “who are fearless in telling stories that people would rather not engage with.”

Principal photography took place in Cardiff and other parts of south Wales.

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