A documentary by Lorna Tucker (@always_leyt) shedding light on Britain’s homelessness epidemic and how to fix the broken system. In theatres February 16th.
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🫶 Thank you all so, so much for your incredible response to our UK cinema and digital release of @SomeonesSonDoc. You’ve packed out our screenings and have been so wonderful at our Q&As, and now you folks at home have gotten us to no. 4 on Curzon Home Cinema’s Top 10 list!
🗞️ “The homeless organisations were appalled by me because they thought I was a kind of secondhand car dealer” — @BigIssue co-founder @johnbirdswords speaks on starting The Big Issue in the 90s and what the homeless charity landscape looked like at the time.
🎥 The Hackney and Norwich Q&As will be introduced by Parveen Bird, the Chair of the Big Issue Invest Trust. In Norwich, Lord Bird will be joined by Dr Jan Sheldon, CEO of @stmartinsnfk, who are doing incredible work in Norwich helping homeless people and those at risk.
📽️ Scenes from the Q&A with @BigIssue co-founder @johnbirdswords, Leader of @SouthamptonCC Councillor Lorna Fielker, and Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son Producer Claire Lewis, hosted by former councillor and current Labour candidate Gordon Cooper.
🎞️ We’re proud to have produced this event with such an influential panel and to have been able to get our documentary in front of key decision makers who have the power to introduce the policies that will help end Britain’s homelessness crisis.
🎟️ Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son screens at the @HackneyPH on 17 April and at @CinemaCityNrw on 8 May. Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Lord Bird — get your tickets while they last at someonesdaughterfilm.org
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Proud to support the film, Someone’s Daughter Someone’s Son from start to finish, addressing homelessness and poverty in the UK. This film highlights the urgent need for government action. Delighted to welcome director Lorna Tucker as a Big Issue Group Ambassador - @always_leyt.
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Lorna Tucker (@always_leyt), director of the smash-hit homelessness documentary @SomeonesSonDoc, credits Big Issue Group with helping her escape homelessness. 🎬
Now she’s joined the Big Issue’s mission to lift people out of poverty.
Read more. 👇
bigissue.com/news/film-direc…
🖋️ “Walking around London, you see the rise in homelessness. The 4,068 rough sleepers counted on London’s streets between last July and September was a quarterly record outside a pandemic, reports the Combined Homelessness and Information Network. And rough sleeping is only…”
🤩 Last month, we had the pleasure of having Simon chair the Q&A with Alicia Walker of @centrepointuk and Director Lorna Tucker after a private hosted by the @bryanadams Foundation. The event ended up raising £50,000 for Centrepoint thanks to the Foundation and its supporters!
🌐 You can read the full article and get tickets to upcoming screenings at someonesdaughterfilm.org
🧳 Meet Omar. Omar came to the UK from Jamaica with high hopes for his marriage until his relationship broke down and he ended up homeless in Birmingham. Omar managed to get himself off the streets by working as a @BigIssue vendor, which he still does to this day.
🎟️ Omar will be part of the post-screening discussion at the @mac_birmingham this Thursday, along with Doug Stewart, Strategic Lead at @ShelterBHM, contributor @EarlCharlton3, and hosted by Ed Jackson. Get your tickets at someonesdaughterfilm.org while they last!
⏳ It’s time we put an end to homelessness — email your MP (and get tickets to upcoming screenings) at someonesdaughterfilm.org
🎞️ We’ve got a big night ahead of us next week, as Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son screens at ten @CurzonCinemas across the country as part of the ‘Curzon Home Cinema Presents’ series. Get your tickets while they last at someonesdaughterfilm.org
💘 A bit of V-Day love from the @guardian:
🗞️ “Director Lorna Tucker brings her own experience to this documentary and works an empathy miracle in her interviews with people on the street.”
🎟️ Full review and tickets to upcoming screenings on someonesdaughterfilm.org
⏳ @TimeOutFilm’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review earlier in the year — full review and tickets to upcoming screenings on someonesdaughterfilm.org
