Emotional short film from Lincolnshire captures lockdown struggle
It won a national film award
A short movie filmed entirely on Zoom by a teenage Lincolnshire director has captured the difficulty of coronavirus quarantine among older people.
Happy Together was filmed during the first national coronavirus lockdown, directed by Grantham-born Oscar Hewitt, and starring local amateur actors Geoff Middleton and Julie Holmes.
It follows the story of Harold and Dot Ainsworth, a married couple of 33 years who have had to quarantine away from one another.
Harold and Dot Ainsworth talk on Zoom each day in the movie. | Photo: Oscar Hewitt
The film’s dialogue and entire plot is based around Zoom calls between the two, with filming being done on computer webcams.