Ten years after it was made, a small-budget coming-of-age tale is finally finding a big audience online
One after another, the viewers’ comments pile on the praise: “A great work of art that will stand the test of time. True, honest, raw but beautiful, just as the Dales and the people who inhabit them”, “a little gem” and “Will become a classic!”
The public response to the film Lad: A Yorkshire Story is looking very good. But for director Dan Hartley it has been a long wait for audience approval on this scale. In fact his film may well classify as the slowest rolling snowball hit of all time.
One after another, the viewers’ comments pile on the praise: “A great work of art that will stand the test of time. True, honest, raw but beautiful, just as the Dales and the people who inhabit them”, “a little gem” and “Will become a classic!”
The public response to the film Lad: A Yorkshire Story is looking very good. But for director Dan Hartley it has been a long wait for audience approval on this scale. In fact his film may well classify as the slowest rolling snowball hit of all time.
- 2/6/2021
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Lad: A Yorkshire Story
In 2012, filmmaker Dan Hartley made Lad: A Yorkshire Story, a film about a boy whose friendship with a park ranger gives him a new chance in life after the death of his father. Like many independent filmmakers, he distributed it himself. But despite his own feelings about the film, he never expected it to get as strong a response as it did. Now he's campaigning to get it recognised properly by the IMDb.
Taking the film on a world festival tour, Hartley found that it receive a positive response from audiences in many different places. He worked hard to promote it until he felt he'd done as much as he could - but then, a month ago, he discovered that it was on YouTube and was delighted by the comments viewers had left. "Seeing it get taken up like that with no publicity and no promotion was quite.
In 2012, filmmaker Dan Hartley made Lad: A Yorkshire Story, a film about a boy whose friendship with a park ranger gives him a new chance in life after the death of his father. Like many independent filmmakers, he distributed it himself. But despite his own feelings about the film, he never expected it to get as strong a response as it did. Now he's campaigning to get it recognised properly by the IMDb.
Taking the film on a world festival tour, Hartley found that it receive a positive response from audiences in many different places. He worked hard to promote it until he felt he'd done as much as he could - but then, a month ago, he discovered that it was on YouTube and was delighted by the comments viewers had left. "Seeing it get taken up like that with no publicity and no promotion was quite.
- 8/23/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Scorsese doc in Berlin, Tokyo sets dates, Pan-Asia Film Festival stretches across UK, Locarno to honour Titanus studio, and Ilkley plans first edition.Scorsese & Tedeschi doc added to Berlin
Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors. More here.
Tokyo sets 2014 dates
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company...
Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors. More here.
Tokyo sets 2014 dates
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company...
- 1/28/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Scorsese doc in Berlin, Tokyo sets dates, Pan-Asia Film Festival stretches across UK, Locarno to honour Titanus studio, and Ilkley plans first edition.Scorsese & Tedeschi doc added to Berlin
Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors. More here.
Tokyo sets 2014 dates
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company...
Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors. More here.
Tokyo sets 2014 dates
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company...
- 1/28/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Tokyo sets dates, Pan-Asia Film Festival stretches across UK, Locarno to honour Titanus studio, and Ilkley plans first edition.Tokyo sets 2014 dates
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company’s history as well as its present day output.
The Festival audience will have the opportunity to see melodramas starring the screen couple Nazzari-Sanson, directed by Matarazzo, the Pane amore and Poveri ma belli series directed by Comencini and Risi.
It will also screen films that revealed auteurs such as Fellini, Visconti, Lattuada...
The 27th Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) will be held from October 23-31. Tiffcom will run earlier than last year, from Oct 21-23.
The festival revealed that its 2013 edition drew 121,771 people, up 14%. Tiffcom 2013 hosted 316 exhibitors, up 15%, and 1,074 buyers, up 9%. More info here.
Locarno to celebrate Titanus
The 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16) is planning a retrospective on the Italian production studio Titanus.
The production company was founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904, and Locarno will celebrate the company’s history as well as its present day output.
The Festival audience will have the opportunity to see melodramas starring the screen couple Nazzari-Sanson, directed by Matarazzo, the Pane amore and Poveri ma belli series directed by Comencini and Risi.
It will also screen films that revealed auteurs such as Fellini, Visconti, Lattuada...
- 1/28/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The prizes have been dished out at Houston and Anchorage, but we can see the film in Settle, Keighley, Bowness, Hexham and other points north
Alright, I come clean. This is a bit of an excuse to use some more pictures of the grim north, in the form of the Yorkshire Dales.
I'm inspired partly by the Guardian's use of a mouth-watering tempter to visit Gunnerside in Swaledale which they kindly used to illustrate my farewell piece to the north in today's paper. But more because yet another film based in this Heaven-on-Earth is doing well internationally.
It's called Lad: A Yorkshire Story and is the work of writer and director Dan Hartley who grew up in the Dales but now frequents such exotic places as Houston in Texas and Anchorage, the state capital of Alaska. In the former, his film is getting a best-feature prize at Worldfest and at the latter,...
Alright, I come clean. This is a bit of an excuse to use some more pictures of the grim north, in the form of the Yorkshire Dales.
I'm inspired partly by the Guardian's use of a mouth-watering tempter to visit Gunnerside in Swaledale which they kindly used to illustrate my farewell piece to the north in today's paper. But more because yet another film based in this Heaven-on-Earth is doing well internationally.
It's called Lad: A Yorkshire Story and is the work of writer and director Dan Hartley who grew up in the Dales but now frequents such exotic places as Houston in Texas and Anchorage, the state capital of Alaska. In the former, his film is getting a best-feature prize at Worldfest and at the latter,...
- 3/12/2013
- by Martin Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
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