Filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverse individuals in three northern English towns struggling with post-industrial deprivation. Amongst the people we meet in Halifax, Middlesbrough and Wakefield are an Eritrean asylum-seeker, a British former power-station worker and a Pakistani man mourning his immigrant father who loved his adopted home. From Where We Stand offers the people who are portrayed time and space to express how they feel about their lives and their towns, resulting in a moving and fascinating glimpse of their very different experiences.

From Where We Stand originated from a research project at University of Leeds called Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in ‘Ordinary Towns and Cities after Brexit’.

Funded by ESRC “Governance after Brexit”

Running time 60 mins

Lucy Kaye, Director, Camera, co-Producer

Kaye is a freelance documentary filmmaker based in London. With a background in Visual Anthropology, she graduated from the National Film and Television school in 2009. She has worked for the BBC, Channel 4, Vice, The Guardian with subjects ranging from PTSD to Horse Whispering. Her First Cut film for Ch4 received critical acclaim and she was recently awarded the prestigious Pears Short Film Award for her film Memory Songs. She is currently the Documentary Term Tutor at The London Film School. Her passion lies in making creative, character-driven films that can have a universal appeal.