Heavy Load
Narrative Feature • 2008 • 91’ • UK
Shot over two years HEAVY LOAD follows the band as they record their first album The Queen Mother’s Dead, the film is a comedy of conflicting ambitions, capturing the sweat and romance of playing in a band as they move out of the ghetto of disability club nights to test whether their dreams can survive in the mainstream.
Director:
Jerry Rothwell
Producers:
Al Morrow, Jonny Persey, Jerry Rothwell
Executive Producers:
Christine Lubrano, Andy Porter, Mark Dunford, Luke Montagu
Co-Producer:
Stewart le Maréchal
Partners:
IFC, ITVS, BBC Storyville
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SXSW 2008 [World Premiere]
Raindance Film Festival 2008
Atlantic Film Festival 2008
St Louis International Film Festival 2008
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2008 -
★★★★
Total Film“A really, really fine music documentary.”
Mark Kermode“A delightful odyssey.”
Empire“Funny and touching.”
The Guardian“A portrait of a nation with social services and a public so compassionate it makes our own look heartless.”
The New York Times
