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# Queers in Blackpool: new film casts light on Blackpool’s queer scene with its people at its heart
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/queers-in-blackpool-new-film-casts-light-on-blackpools-queer-scene-with-its-people-at-its-heart/
- Published: 2024-12-18T14:00:12.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-19T09:44:07.000Z
- Description: Blackpool’s newest multi-artform festival, Queer Amusements, lit up the North-West from April to September 2024. A new short film from Tiktok Award nominee James Barnett (best known for his channel @makemeaoffer with parents Teresa and Michael), Queers in Blackpool, shines a light on the people who
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Blackpool, David Sheppeard, Harry Clayton-Wright, LGBT, LGBTQ

**Blackpool**’s newest multi-artform festival, **Queer Amusements**, lit up the North-West from April to September 2024\. A new short film from Tiktok Award nominee **James Barnett** (best known for his channel **@makemeaoffer** with parents Teresa and Michael), ***Queers in Blackpool***, shines a light on the people who were involved, the town it took place in, and what happens next.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/queers-in-blackpool-poster-credit_-james-barnett-e1734527501718.jpg)

Pic credit: James Barnett

Drawing from interviews with participating artists and collaborators, performance footage, photography and playfully camp glances at Blackpool’s long histories of entertaining (from Orville the Duck to Gemma Collins), *Queers in Blackpool* acts as a snapshot of a festival which looks to bring new art and ideas to one of the largest LGBTQ+ communities in the UK.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/harry-clayton-wright-left-titty-kaka-right-outdoors.jpg)

Harry Clayton-Wright (left) with Titty Kaka (right). Pic credit: James Barnett

Featuring interviews with **Aish Bell-Docherty**, **Sam Bell-Docherty**, **Joe Booth**, **Laura Catlow**, **Jane Claire Bradley**, **Harry Clayton-Wright** (artistic director of Queer Amusements), **Miss Titty Kaka**, **Catherine Mugonyi** and **David Sheppeard**, *Queers in Blackpool* comes loaded with behind-the-scenes footage, stolen kettles, incredible shop signs, Cinderella’s carriage and beautiful insight into Blackpool’s queer scene from the people at its heart.

*Queers in Blackpool*, which is produced by Queer Amusements, had its World Premiere at **Blackpool Film Festival** (BFF) in November 2024, playing before beloved queer classic, *Female Trouble*.

**All images by James Barnett.**

Queer Amusements was commissioned by **Marlborough Productions** as part of their **New Queers on the Block** strand and Blackpool-based organisation **Aunty Social**. It is also supported using public funding by **Arts Council England**.