Really pleased to announce that we have been officially selected for the 10th Oaxaca International Film Festival in Mexico this October.
When you hear that Approval Needed is a film written in protest against the intolerance surrounding Brexit, set in North London and that it’s a comedy about a traffic warden and a self-checkout machine, you could be forgiven for assuming it wouldn’t be a story that translates across cultures.
But at its heart, Approval Needed is about the pain of loneliness and the need for love in this world of ours and that translates across all languages and cultures. Even in Germany, where they don’t have such machines, the audience laughed as hard, perhaps even more than our home audience, in response to Amita the traffic warden’s encounter with Jessica the supermarket self-checkout machine.
We are all the same at our core. We should treat all our fellow humans and the world we share with respect and love. That’s what I was trying to say with this film. I’m not such an egomaniac that I think I can change the world with it, but and nothing makes me happier than knowing that this film, with it’s story of hope and love, is travelling out across the world, making people cry a little, making them laugh a lot, and letting them see that we Brits are more than the small minded, hateful people out currently seem to be defining us on the international political stage.
So, a big thank you to Oaxaca for selecting Approval Needed – it means more than you can imagine.
Kx
