The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to about Hudson’s debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system.
When single mother Molly emerges from prison, she is forced to navigate fractured relationships and an unforgiving bureaucratic system that threatens to consume her. Hudson’s narrative feature debut is a tender portrait of a mother’s desperate fight to reclaim her children after a prison sentence derails her life. This gripping drama lays bare the brutal realities of a system that can trap people in cycles of injustice.
Lollipop was made with the support of the BFI Filmmaking Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.