The Gritties

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1984 fiction film miners strike teen thegritties

Currently being made into a tv film for Boom Pictures. 
Carys Evans is 17 years old, ambitious, clever and feisty. But she 
is also the daughter of a mining family in South Wales, about to enter 
the most violent industrial dispute of modern times.

Her mother starts a soup kitchen, her father becomes a strike leader
 and her village, Aberelli, gets invaded by journalists, police officers
 and strike provocateurs. Violence, intimidation and depravity prevail.

Carys's world gets changed in ways she would never have imagined.

Taking us from 1984 to 2009, this is a story of  survival, sex, 
aspiration and a fight to save community. Marrying the personal and 
political, it is funny, sad and shocking - and resonates with the bigger
 story of industrial decline in the final decades of the twentieth 
century.

   












  
  


    












    
	
	
    
  
  
    

















    








  
    

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