BETTER THINGS

Duane Hopkins | UK / GER 2008 | 93 min.

Material: 35mm
Format: 35mm
Original language: English

Script: Duane Hopkins
Camera: Lol Crawley
Sound: Douglas MacDougall
Music: Dan Berridge
Editing: Chris Barwell

With Rachel McIntyre, Emma Cooper, Liam Mcllfatrick, Betty Bunch u.a.

Production: Samm Haillay, Rachel Robey, Helge Albers
Print / Sales: Flying Moon

New Talent MEDIA Award

I grew up in a working class family. I have this idea that working class doesn't exist in the same way as when I grew up. I think what you have now is a middle-class which seems very heavily debt-ridden. And then the other side of that is people who have fallen off. A new, emerging underclass, which is very, very big – it's something that I saw when I was doing the casting for BETTER THINGS. I want to set a film in that kind of environment. I want to see how it's possible to economically survive when you're part of that class, part of that system. And how hard it is to have a sense of morality. If you're middle-class, it's very easy for you to have a sense of morality. It's very easy for you to be liberal and have ideals, norms, values. – Duane Hopkins

Duane Hopkins, born in 1974 in Chipping Campden, Gloustershire, England. He studied painting and photography, directed two award winning short films and in 2006 established together with Samm Haillay "Third Films" a production company that since then produced four short fearure films. He is currently also working on photographic installation projects.

Films: Fields 2001 | Love Me or Leave Me Alone 2003 | Better Things 2008

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