Characters/ Representation

I believe that our characters do reflect a diverse cross-section of society in terms of their backgrounds. We had one character who had a very strong relationship with their father and is devastated after his death, another character who is being denied access to his children by his ex-wife and truly believes not enough is being done to help him get some custody, and one final character who is pregnant and does not want to raise her children without a father. I believe that this reasonable range of experiences of fatherhood.

Some issues were raised by a minority of our respondents who felt that there was a negative representation of what they determined as ‘Black’ fathers within the film. Despite the fact that a large portion of the audience disagreed with this comment, I feel we still need to address it, as there is the potential of offending some audience members. Despite the fact that we never took the ‘colour’ of our actor’s skin into consideration, in the same way that we never considered their eye colour, when asking them to act in the film. I now see our film as an opportunity for challenging societies stereotypes and question how people determine ‘Black and White’.