SP8PUBLISHINGS
GOYIM
A Short Film
Written by H Speight
Based on a concept by H Speight & Affa Lavey
Contact: Harry Speight | itsharryspeight@gmail.com
Date: Thursday, 31 July 2025
Location: Bradford, England, UK
Genre: Dark Comedy / Drama
Logline:
In a drizzly Bradford synagogue hall, four disillusioned twenty-somethings launch a guerrilla media campaign to fight hate-only to discover their own fractures threaten to tear the movement-and each other-apart.
Synopsis:
GOYIM follows Hershal, an anxious conspiracist; Malakai, a smooth-talking strategist; Davina, a style-savvy provocateur; and Yehuda, the warm-hearted skeptic. Spurred by Rabbi Feldman's warning that "power rarely marches in uniform," they form Project: Tikkun Olam 2.0-a rapid-response, online resistance against antisemitism, Islamophobia, and every "merchant of conflict."
Recruiting streetwear impresario Avi for free hoodies and underground cachet, the quartet unleashes a storm of memes, stencils, and live-stream manifestos.
A kinetic montage-scored to klezmer-grime-reveals their isolated worlds: Hershal spouting deep-state theories, Davina curating her "revolution aesthetic," Malakai crafting stunts, Yehuda furiously annotating history texts.
United by purpose but divided by ideology, they each believe the others hold the key to victory. In the glow of phone screens, they feel invincible-yet farther apart than ever. As their digital insurgency spirals out of control, the echo of Gutle Schnapper Rothschild's words lingers: "If my sons did not want wars, there would be none."
GOYIM is a razor-sharp exploration of modern activism, fragmented identities, and the perilous illusion of solidarity in the age of virality.