London’s Forgotten | The Stories of Knife Crime Victims Are Connected by a Wandering Drifter

A cycle that targets the few. A cycle that refuses to end. In the urban streets of London, the stories of knife crime victims are connected by a wandering drifter who has loose ends to tie.
London’s Forgotten is a surrealist anti-knife crime short film that blurs the line between narrative and experimental.
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London's Forgotten by Liam Pinheiro-Rogers
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"The development of the concept was an interesting one. In some ways, it started in 2019 and in other ways, it actually started in the early 2000s when I was still living in Tottenham. As a child, I never knew just how bad the area was until I went to secondary school. I realised Tottenham was awash with gang activity, anti-social behaviour and of course, knife crime and it affected a lot of my classmates and friends. My parents moved us out of the area when our next-door neighbour’s son was tragically killed in Wood Green, a rival area. But despite knowing that it was a bad area, I still didn’t know why. What was the cause of these issues?
The thought stuck with me and it was in 2019 that an idea sprouted in my head to do with my upbringing. I wanted to focus on the ghost of a knife crime victim finding his body in the middle of the street and trying to understand why this happened to him. It would’ve been a no budget short film made with a skeleton crew working off a one to two page script. Being a fan of horror and fantasy, I believe the concept needed that ghostly edge to fully explore the themes. We didn’t get to shoot it as actors and crew pulled out, and that’s when the idea started to expand, instead focusing on multiple victims of knife crime. It became more ambitious, and that’s when I knew I needed a larger crew and bigger budget to create this."
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Great short film

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Thanks for watching