Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only
the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the
greenest of slow fashion. It’s also the medicine that helps him survive the death of
his wife, which leaves him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a
beautiful way to honour her.
Made over many years with great love and care - and for an extremely low crowdfunded budget - the film and the dress are both labours of love in the truest sense. That spirit has also carried the distribution of The Nettle Dress. People’s goodwill and enthusiasm - via word of mouth and telling friends and family - has led to us selling out 25 cinema screenings! It’s been an organic and inspiring process, creating spaces for so many connections and conversations.
Now we’d like to see if we can bring the film to even more people.
We’re holding this one-off online, UK-only* screening to raise the £3,000 we need to distribute the film more widely in cinemas this autumn.
We’re learning film distribution as we go, and it’s going well so far!
We’ll spend every penny we raise on bringing the film to as many people as possible:
- setting up a tour of the film in the autumn
- printing posters, flyers and postcards
- making copies of the film to send to cinemas
- engaging with media to raise the profile of the film and its key themes, especially the power of slow craft and creativity
Thanks for watching and for being part of this film's journey. We hope to meet you in person at a cinema soon!
‘Exquisite, inspiring and beautiful.’
Sir Mark Rylance
*Unfortunately, due to licensing restraints, this screening is only available in the UK. We hope to show it further afield later!
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only
the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the
greenest of slow fashion. It’s also the medicine that helps him survive the death of
his wife, which leaves him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a
beautiful way to honour her.
Made over many years with great love and care - and for an extremely low crowdfunded budget - the film and the dress are both labours of love in the truest sense. That spirit has also carried the distribution of The Nettle Dress. People’s goodwill and enthusiasm - via word of mouth and telling friends and family - has led to us selling out 25 cinema screenings! It’s been an organic and inspiring process, creating spaces for so many connections and conversations.
Now we’d like to see if we can bring the film to even more people.
We’re holding this one-off online, UK-only* screening to raise the £3,000 we need to distribute the film more widely in cinemas this autumn.
We’re learning film distribution as we go, and it’s going well so far!
We’ll spend every penny we raise on bringing the film to as many people as possible:
- setting up a tour of the film in the autumn
- printing posters, flyers and postcards
- making copies of the film to send to cinemas
- engaging with media to raise the profile of the film and its key themes, especially the power of slow craft and creativity
Thanks for watching and for being part of this film's journey. We hope to meet you in person at a cinema soon!
‘Exquisite, inspiring and beautiful.’
Sir Mark Rylance
*Unfortunately, due to licensing restraints, this screening is only available in the UK. We hope to show it further afield later!