Filmmaker Statement

This film is about the excitement of meeting someone like you. The world can open up and change shape in the time it takes to share a couple of drinks with someone. No matter how alone we feel we are in our projects and ambitions, we are none of us immune to the power of human connection when it happens – even two psychopaths like Fred and Rose West. They find a redemption in their meeting – a relief. Even if their meeting is not redemptive in a larger, societal sense. So in a sense the film is about the power of human connection to cut through everything, including hatred and inhumanity towards people. Thank you for considering my film. Having it shown on Short of the Week would be like getting to stand in the sun after ten years of mining in Iceland.