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No Man Is an Island

Country: United Kingdom, Language: English, 21 mins

  • Director: John Craine
  • Writer: John Craine
  • Producer: Hannah Bush Bailey, Amy Gardner, Jess Gormley, Zoe Guilford, Diarmuid Hughes, Bev Lawley, Rachel Victoria Miles, Lindsay Poulton, Iliane Ogilvie Thompson

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This creative documentary immerses us in a little-known chapter of gay history. In 1992, the Isle of Man was one of the last places in western Europe to decriminalise homosexual acts.

Through verbatim reconstruction and newly discovered archives, we understand the impact of discriminatory parliamentary debates, controversial media coverage and overreaching police surveillance. In a short period of time, this corner of the British Isles went on to create some of the most progressive legislation in the world. Do people change, or do laws change people?


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Cast & Characters

James Northcote (as Long Haired Man)
Nigel Hastings (as TV Presenter)
Samuel Holland (as Alan Shea)
Edward Crompton (as Peter Karran)
Zoe Guilford (as Sheena Mackay)
Andrew Willoughby (as Donald Gelling)
Anthony Crank (as Middle Aged Man)
Matthew Bridson (as Journalist)
Liam Behan (as Bearded Man)
James Trewin (as Young Man)
Andi McCormick (as Allan Bell)
Celia Joughin (as Mother)
Charlie Henry (as John Corrin)
Lisa Kreisky (as Wife)
Barbara Quilliam (as Hazel Hannan)
Billy Newton (as Miles Walker)
Phil Gawne (as Angry Father)
Howard Caine (as Chief Constable Robin Oake)
Shawn Sturnick (as Solicitor)
Geoff Pugh (as Philip Kermode)
Gilly Bowers (as Julia Delaney)
Daniel Sebastian Gray (as Bald Man)
Ian Manton (as Journalist)
Garry Eissen (as Patrick Bell)
Nigel Harrison (as Edgar Quine)