BAFTA Breakthrough Star Talks Healing Through Film - Daisy-May Hudson

Today on Life After Prison, we’re joined by filmmaker Daisy-May Hudson.

In 2013, Daisy-May was living in a hostel with her mum and sister — a reality she didn’t fully recognise as homelessness at the time.

At that young age she decided to pick up a camera and document it, a decision that would change everything. Her story went viral, leading to her documentary Halfway, which she crowdfunded and took to cinemas.

Now a BAFTA Breakthrough talent, her work — including feature film Lollipop — focuses on storytelling, healing, and lived experience, particularly around prison and homelessness.

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Organisations:

• Clean Break - Support women affected by the criminal justice system through training and performance, helping them build confidence and pathways into creative industries.
• Reclaim The Frame - Directly support women into film through development programmes, training, and showcasing work by women directors.
• Daddyless Daughters - support girls and young women who have been affected by family breakdown, abuse and adversity across London between the age of 14 - 30 years old. Supporting them to go on to build and sustain healthy relationships and lifestyles in aid of preventing criminal and sexual exploitation.
• Birth Companions – Provides support for pregnant women and mothers in prison, including help with resettlement and parenting.
• Petition for the Holloway Centre - https://levelup.movement-action.org/p/islington-council-finish-holloway-womens-centre
• Daisy-May's first feature film Lollipop - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pvjy

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