On Sunday 12th November we held the premiere of our short film ’15 Years of Exeter Pride’ as part of Exeter Phoenix’s yearly Come As You Are Festival, which explores issues around gender identity and celebrates the local trans, non-binary and genderqueer community. We were excited to be able to be part of the festival and to be able to invite all the interviewees, volunteers, and supporters of the project to watch the film held in the Phoenix’s independent cinema Studio 74.

We are delighted to say that we found a talented film maker experienced in archival work, Simone Einfalt, to direct our short film, and on 15th October she traveled down from Bristol for a day of filming.

Our two main goals for the day were to interview Max Cohen about his experiences of Exeter Pride, and to record local poet Chris White's spoken word poem inspired by listening to all our wonderful interviewees.

So we’ve got our interviews, our donated films and photographs and our amazing filmmaker Simone Einfalt and we’re ready to start the process of what we want to explore through our short film. 

We have most of our interviewees lined up and have begun to record interviews for the heritage project!