• The Real Eastenders

  • DESCRIPTION

    Now the docks are long-gone, but the old ways of life carry on for these Real Eastenders, many of whom trace their Island roots back six generations.

    Filmed over Summer 2019, first time director Ashley Francis-Roy presents the world as seen by children growing up on the Island’s council estates.

    With narration and original music by local singer songwriter Hak Baker, this moving film finds the innocence of childhood alive and well in the least expected of places.

    QUOTES

    A moving look at childhood innocence
    TV Times
    A vivid portrait of a generation facing an uncertain future.
    Radio Times
    An engaging combination of stark reality and lightly mythologised history, Ashley Francis-Roy’s documentary is humane and insightful. Moving without being sentimental, funny without being crass, it’s a revealing glimpse of a vanishing world... this deserves a series.
    The Telegraph

  • The Real Eastenders

    • PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
    • (1x60 mins’)
    • production company

    In the heart of London’s East End, the docks of the Isle of Dogs were once the beating heart of Empire...