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.
Cast
Danielle Dean
Quatermass
Andrea Dean
Self
Dave Marchant
Barman
Brendon Laing
Unknown
Brian Dean
Unknown
Collum Dean
Unknown
Chielota Aneto
Unknown
Chibuikem Aneto
Unknown
Clive Brooks
Man on street
Harvey Taylor
Unknown
Godson Leboko
Unknown
Sharon Brobbery
Unknown
Jada Coke
Unknown
David Owusu Ansah
Unknown
Stanley Aneto
Unknown
Theresa Ross
Lady with handkerchief
Theresa Ross
Lady with handkerchief