GPS tagging film selected for Earls Court International Film Festival
From surveillance to silver screen: victims of arbitrary Home Office tagging nominated for London film award
A film featuring our client's story of living under 24/7 GPS surveillance as part of a controversial Home Office scheme has been nominated for this year's Earl’s Court International Film Festival.
As part of the scheme, people who are not British citizens - including people who have lived in the UK since childhood - can be forced to wear GPS tracking devices for an indefinite period so that the Home Office can track their location 24/7.
The film, ‘He Looked at my tag and wrote me off’, is a true story of the physical and psychological effect of the scheme - which was recently extended until December, and campaigners are fighting to end.
It was screened on 13th and 15th November at the festival, which is now in its ninth year of attracting established and emerging film and acting talent from around the world.
