"Why my film will change perceptions of Down's Syndrome". Ex-EastEnders actress Shana Swash and award-winner Steven Brandon, who has Down's Syndrome, on their emotional movie.
"Weekend: This isn't a film about disability, it's about ability". "National Film Awards 2017 winners announced". "Movie review: 'My Feral Heart' warms the soul". ^ a b c Rajan, Smitha (5 September 2017).Mark Kermode reviews My Feral Heart (2015) / BFI Player. ^ a b c d e Kermode, Mark (23 October 2020)."My Feral Heart review – life after keeping mum". ^ a b c d e Ide, Wendy (6 November 2016).Some reviews note dissatisfaction with the implausibility of the surreal abstraction of the feral animal. Mark Kermode in a review states the film is about "ability not disability", noting the film has begun to gather a cult status. The main protagonist Steven Brandon, who has Down syndrome, received may accolades for his performance. The film won two prizes at the FIHH including Prize for Best Fiction Feature ( French: Prix du Mellier Long Métrage Fiction). The film was released on UK terrestrial television on 18 March 2021, timed to coincide with World Down Syndrome day on the 21 March 2021. The film was also available in screenings through the "Ourscreen" platform in UK, where an individual can hope to gather sufficient seats for a Cinema screening. and European premier at the September 2016 Festival international du film sur le handicap (FIHH). My Feral Heart made its UK premier at the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival. Music was composed by Barrington Pheloung. At least two notable established actresses play roles: Eileen Pollock as Luke's mother Joan for a few scenes at the start of the film and Suzanna Hamilton does a single scene as Pete's mother. The complete cast runs into several dozen, including a group of disabled children who play the residents of the care home. The fourth main character is contortionist Pixie Le Knot who as an anonymous girl personifies a trapped feral fox. Will Rastall is Pete, doing community service near Blossom House who befriends Luke and assists him to express his abilities. Shana Swash plays Eve, a caregiver at the Blossom House residential home who slowly builds a relationship with Luke. The film contains three other major characters. On an episode of " Loose Women" on 23 November 2017 Brandon's father Mike said how after the birth he had been told Steven "would "not be able to do much", "not be able to amount to anything", "possibly not talk". A member of the Mushroom Theatre Company it was 33-year old Brandon from Mersea debutant film role and resulted in the award of best actor at the 2017 National Film Awards UK. Steven Brandon acts the role of Luke, a young man with Down syndrome who turns from being an independent caregiver to his mother to being a dependent in the structured regime of a residential care home for special-needs people. The film goes on to develops Luke's relationship with a feral animal personified as a girl, bringing the four main characters together at the conclusion of the film. The film explores the development of relationships between Luke Eve, a carer at the home and Pete, a hunt saboteur doing community service.
When she dies social services remove Luke to Blossom House, a care home, where Luke struggles to adapt to the restrictive environment. In a reversal of the generally expected roles it is Luke, who has Down syndrome, that is the careperson for his elderly mother.
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