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(2025)dir. LILLY ZHUANG
Written by Pete Restrick
Produced by Christian Dametto
SYNOPSIS: In East Riding, Yorkshire, seventeen-year-old KADEN reluctantly takes a job at the local strawberry field over the Summer. A quiet introvert, KADEN clearly doesn’t fit in with the other farmhands, who are all older, more experienced, and treat him with contempt. It is here he encounters LUCAS, an aloof eighteen-year-old who has worked at the farm for several Summers now. Underneath his initial indifference, LUCAS hides a deeper curiosity for KADEN. Desires disentangle in this new, uninhibited, and sun-drenched environment, as the two boys tentatively begin to explore their feelings towards one another in secret, a kinship that forces them to confront their own internalised homophobia, shame, and sense of belonging.
Cinematographer: Hayley Grant
Steadicam Operator: Alex Kingston
1st AC: Luke Debord
2nd AC: Max Whitaker
DIT: Lilly Zhuang
Gaffer: Marta Vitola
Spark: Joseph Wharfe
1st AD: Pete Restrick
Script Supervisor: Pete Restrick
Sound Recordist: Dan Ellaby
Drone Operator: Joel Greenbank
Casting: Lilly Zhuang & Pete Restrick
Consulting Casting Director: Shakeel Haakim
Production Designer: Ye Lynn Sim
HMU: Amy Rowley
Costume Coordinator: Jet Magielse
Editor: Irfan van Tuijl
Executive Producer: Kate Shelley
Production Company: House on Fire Productions