FORMAT: DVD Pal
Format: CD Album
CAT#: HVNFILM001
Label: Heavenly Films
Limited Edition of 1500
Pre-Order on August 6, 2012, shipped first week of September.
Saint Etienne presents a film about the Lower Lea Valley by Paul Kelly
We got a tip off about the plans for the Lower Lea Valley from a bloke called Redmond O'Neill at the Mayor of London's office - he cycled to work through it and said it was a fascinating, mostly derelict area of the city where they were hoping to clean up the old industrial land and build social housing (ah, the olden days). Paul Kelly and I went for a recce on a wet Wednesday and discovered it was isolated, smelly, filthy and full of wild one-off places. We spent three weeks shooting there in the summer of 2005. It's entirely unrecognisable now. Bob Stanley - January 2021
We came up with the idea of having a paperboy delivering news of the successful Olympic bid as a way of navigating the vast site. The role was somewhat reluctantly accepted by my nephew Noah who, we soon discovered, couldn't actually ride a bike. The weather was amazing and each day we would shoot from 7am to midday before heading to the pub to work out the following day's shot list. Paul Kelly - January 2021