A grand mixture of dark and light; a raw, hard-hitting and beautiful depiction of a troubled relationship.

LITTLE WHITE LIES

Joe’s first film: a micro-budget drama made with only £60k. It managed to become critically acclaimed enough to achieve the rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, was bought by MUBI UK and Film4, and even taught in Media Studies countrywide.

the cast

  • Scott Chambers

    RICHARD

  • Yasmin Paige

    ANNABEL

  • Morgan Watkins

    POLLY

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The Story

Fifteen-year-old Richard lives in a caravan with his abusive older brother Polly and his pet chicken Fiona. As tensions between him and his brother rise, Richard befriends teenager Annabel, whose family have just purchased the land they live on.

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  • "a remarkably solid and sincere look at lives marginalized several times over, collected around an achingly honest breakout turn."

    —Variety

  • "captures the warmth, loneliness and harsh reality of this disenfranchised world with unobtrusive aplomb"

    —Mark Kermode, The Observer

  • "Chicken – from London-based filmmaker Joe Stephenson – is the kind of low-budget British indie which restores faith in cinema"

    —Cinevue