Following the demise of their steel plant, the Teesside town of Redcar has succumbed to devastation and has since become a rusting, decaying shell of what it once was.
The people of the town are still coming to terms with the grim reality, but nobody can argue the impact it has had on the former plant’s workers. Charlie is one such individual. Still unemployed a year after its closure, he’s drowning in disillusion and struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy.
Writer and Director Tim Goodill has specially curated a bleak and saddening narrative within the confines of a very real decline in the North East in the BFI selected and locally celebrated short film, ‘Blood Steel.’ Ken Loach, the director of Cannes Film Festival award-winning ‘I, Daniel Blake’, has praised the short film for its boldness, as well as being described as: “very moving” by producer of Academy Award-winning film ‘Chariots of Fire’, David Puttnam.
On Tuesday 12th March between 20:00 and 21:30, Gosforth Civic Centre in Newcastle will be hosting a film screening of ‘Blood Steel’ alongside a Director Q&A with Tim Goodill and Rupert Ashmore, a Senior Lecturer in Art and Design History. The two of them will be discussing and reflecting upon ‘Blood Steel’ as a depiction and commentary on the industrial North and the impact on the region since losing a major industry.
Tickets for the ‘Blood Steel’ screening and Q&A are priced at £4.85 in advance and can be purchased at
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