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Smartphones are helping filmmakers tell the stories the movie industry overlooks

Smartphones are helping filmmakers tell the stories the movie industry overlooks

I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly...

02.07.2026 10

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Victoria Mapplebeck

Lollipop: women have alchemy and agency in this council estate drama that’s the antithesis of poverty porn

Lollipop is the polar opposite of middle class fantasies of working class life.

09.06.2025 10

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Victoria Mapplebeck