The Callers

2024

Documentary short

In Post-Production

The Callers combines anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the story of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family or mend a broken heart. The film is a love letter to queer memory and possibility, LGBTQ+ community and care, and the power of collective imagination to create the lives we dream of.

Chicken & Egg presents
A Multitude Films Production
In Association with Little By Little Films, JustFilms | Ford Foundation and InMaat Productions

Directed by Lindsey Dryden

Produced by
Colleen Cassingham
Samantha Steele
Lindsey Dryden

Executive Producers J Wortham, Jess Devaney, Anya Rous, James Costa, Jenni Wolfson, Bill Harnisch, Ruth Ann Harnisch 

Co-Executive Producer Sweta Vohra 

Advisors Tash Walker and Adam Zmith

Director of Photography
Beatriz Sastre

Edited by
Viridiana Lieberman
César Martinez Barba

Production Designer
Tin Vlainić

Composer
Jo Paterson

Costume Designer
Felippe Johann

Colorist
Esme Smith

Supervising Sound Editor / Re-recording Mixer
Filipe Messeder

1st AC
Catharina Scarpellini

2nd AC
Rebecca Richards

Additional Cinematography
Jen Fearnley
Owen Diplock

Sound Recordist
Felix Waverley-Hudson

Gaffer
Abi Hurcomb

Sparks
Klaudia Borbely
Meg Sharp

Production Design Assistant
Rimu Klok

Production Assistants
Morenike Besan
Oona Chanfi

Cast includes

Marvellous Aigbedion, Oona Chanfi, Maya Chew, Siobhan Gardiner, Cassandra Haswell, Valerie Hazan, Henrietta Mathias, Christopher Lieberman, Helen Moore, Joshua Stacey, Belinda Zhawi