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DUE FOR RELEASE LATE 2023/2024: Legendary Children [All of Them Queer] As LGBTQIA+ Pride in the UK celebrated its 50th birthday in 2022, how did it all begin, and where is Pride heading?

Directed and produced by Rob Falconer, and titled by kind permission of Holly Johnson after his anthemic song, the Pride 50 inspired documentary explores the extraordinary 1972 arrival of the Pride movement on European soil and the behemoth it would become. From the 1970s and the arrival of the Gay Liberation Front, groundbreaking rights pioneers of that time recall a very different and hostile landscape in Britain. By the 1990s Pride grew to the mega parades and huge park festivals, succesively bankrupting themselves. Pride in London, the present day incarnation, sees huge numbers in central London but also provokes powerful controversy in the community over its depoliticised parade promoting corporate sponsors. Features prominent human rights campaigners, LGBTQI+ activists and artists who have shaped the course of LGBTQI+ life over the years, including Peter Tatchell, Angela Mason, Tom Robinson, Neil Bartlett, Ted Brown, Lanah Pillay, Stuart Milk, Andrew Lumsden, Stuart Feather, Nathaniel J Hall and more. Music by Tom Robinson and Lanah P & SRJ. Captures some spectacular footage of both Pride's official July 1st birthday and the supersize Pride in London event. Off the cuff, firmly connected to our present, and likely not what anyone's been expecting... The film premiered at the KASHISH 2023 LGBT+ film festival staged in India's movie capital Mumbai in June 2023, just as India awaits the landmark Surpreme Court ruling on equal marriage. (UK 39 mins)