Film
The Saudi women challenging sexism with skateboarding and song
‘God rid us of men’ — A viral music video calls for gender equality and ridicules the absurd restrictions and male domination of women in the Middle East.
Written by: Alex King
Captured on an iPhone: The intimate beauty of the Faroe Islands
Of Land and Sea — In partnership with Boat Magazine, director Fred Scott documented life on Stóra Dímun, the smallest inhabited island in the North Atlantic, to prove that sometimes for good filmmaking all you need is an iPhone.
Written by: Charlotte Irwin
Huck’s favourite perspective-shifting short films of 2016
Reels of change — The best documentaries of the year opened up new outlooks on the world around us and showed how there’s more that unites us than drives us apart.
Written by: Alex King
A blunt conversation about life online with Bret Easton Ellis
Disappear here... — Movies are finished, the novel is dead and the internet is driving people insane. Welcome to the world of Bret Easton Ellis: a literary maverick who’s brutally honest about the digital age.
Written by: Steven T. Hanley
For Sierra Leone’s first female surfer, surfing means hope
A Million Waves — Daniel Ali and Louis Leeson’s poetic film features Kadiatu Kamara, the only female surfer in Sierra Leone, for whom surfing is an escape from the devastating effects of civil war and the Ebola epidemic which swept her country.
Written by: Charlotte Irwin
The challenges of being young and disabled
"If you don’t laugh, you cry" — In August 2015, Caitlin McMullan had her right leg amputated below the knee. She was born with a birth condition called fibular hemimelia, meaning that she was missing her fibular bone, with deformities in the knee, ankle and foot. One year ago, with advice from her consultant, she decided that amputation would be the best option. Caitlin’s friend and filmmaker Dorothy Allen Pickard shot ‘Old Pal’ with her the day before the operation. One year later, Caitlin reflects on how the operation affected her life and her long journey of recovery.
Written by: Caitlin McMullan
The young filmmaker who documented her family becoming homeless
Half Way — Daisy-May Hudson is bringing Britain's 'dirty little secret' out into the light with a moving documentary film about her own family, who lost their home and were swept to one side.
Written by: Daisy-May Hudson/
The new faces of black radical activism in the United Kingdom
No justice, no peace — Discussing an exciting new wave of British black and brown activism with ‘Generation Revolution’ directors, Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.
Written by: Alex King
American Juggalo 2: Into the heart of America’s most misunderstood subculture
Whoop whoop! — Independent filmmaker Sean Dunne returns to the world of the Juggalos and explains how psychedelics have given him a new way to empathise and connect with his subjects.
Written by: Alex King
Our top ten films at Latin America’s biggest surf and skate film festival
A counterculture carnival — Showcasing the raddest surf and skate movies from across the globe, the riotous MIMPI 2016 kicks off in Rio de Janeiro, November 12-15. Here’s what not to miss.
Written by: Alex King