This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Paul Sng hosted by Louise Wadley from the Hebden Bridge Film Festival.

Tish Murtha, a pioneering British photographer who used her camera to expose social inequality in the 1970s-80s, is the subject of Paul Sng’s (Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché) terrific new documentary.

Driven to chronicle the impact of Thatcherism and deindustrialisation on working class communities in Northeast England, Murtha felt an obligation to explore her community from the inside, challenging stereotypes and highlighting the social disadvantages that she herself suffered from. She captured images that repudiated the fetishisation of poverty she saw elsewhere in the wider media, depicting the realities of her subjects’ lives with optimism, humour and humanity instead.