Movie

Hemel (2024)

• October 19, 2024
• 30m

• Documentary

Overview

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.

Director

Danielle Dean

Starring

Danielle Dean, Andrea Dean, Dave Marchant