Acting
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
A priest gathers together a team of desperate people to rob a church and kidnap a young woman with a dark secret.
In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal ‘end scenes’, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.
When a homeless man, Carl, finds himself alone in an abandoned warehouse with a team of corrupt cops who are prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to find their nemesis, a man called Hashim, Carl knows the odds are stacked against him. However, as matters take a turn for the worse and identities become twisted the truth is finally revealed.
London , 1888 and the Ripper murders are gripping the country. The people of Whitechapel are afraid to walk the streets at night, the police are no closer to cracking the case. But someone is watching, waiting, ready to strike.
