Protecting Our Parents

April 16, 2014

Protecting-our-parents_2April 17, 24, May 1, 2014 9pm BBC2

A series in three weekly parts examining the elderly and the various agencies involved in taking care of us as we get older.  With incredible access and moving stories, Protecting Our Parents is a powerful look at the problems facing us now and in our future, both individually and as an aging society.

In this film I let the characters and the images do a lot of the talking.  The music is mostly underscore, doing it’s best when it’s almost imperceptible apart from emotional underpinning.  There are a lot of dark moments so I was keen to work against those where I could, injecting hope and an uplifting spirit wherever possible.

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