Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son + Q&A with John Bird

Award Winning films from the Cornwall Film Festival

Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son | Dir Lorna Tucker | 2024 | 1h 27m | UK | Documentary | 15 

Despite living in the world’s sixth-largest economy, over 300,000 people in the UK are still homeless. Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son is a heartbreaking but hopeful film from now-successful filmmaker Lorna Tucker, who was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London. For this frank, forceful and inspiring documentary, she returns to her former haunts and speaks to current and former homeless people about why, 25 years later, record numbers of people are still reduced to living on Britain’s streets. 

The film will be followed by a Q&A with John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue magazine. Born into a Notting Hill slum, he became homeless at age five, living in an orphanage and in his teens and twenties, spent several…