Tue 28 May
|The Poly, Falmouth
Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son + Q&A with John Bird
Stories of homelessness from a survivor plus Q&A with Big Issue founder John Bird This film is being shown as a fundraiser for Big Issue Frontline.
Time & Location
28 May 2024, 19:30 – 22:00
The Poly, Falmouth, 24 Church St, Falmouth TR11 3EG, UK
About
Award Winning films from the Cornwall Film Festival
Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son | Dir Lorna Tucker | 2024 | 1h 27m | UK | Documentary | 15
Despite living in the world’s sixth-largest economy, over 300,000 people in the UK are still homeless. Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son is a heartbreaking but hopeful film from now-successful filmmaker Lorna Tucker, who was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London. For this frank, forceful and inspiring documentary, she returns to her former haunts and speaks to current and former homeless people about why, 25 years later, record numbers of people are still reduced to living on Britain’s streets.
The film will be followed by a Q&A with John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue magazine. Born into a Notting Hill slum, he became homeless at age five, living in an orphanage and in his teens and twenties, spent several…
Tickets
Adults
£8.50
+£0.21 ticket service fee
Children, Students, YP 16-30
£5.00
+£0.13 ticket service fee
Seniors
£7.50
+£0.19 ticket service fee
Ticket + Digital donanations
Mor Media Charity will take the standard ticket price (£8.50) away from your payment and donate the remaining to The Big Issue
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