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GOTH CRUISE

“Don your best black eyeliner and run to see this film…. ...a funny and touching portrait of a bunch of intelligent, welcoming misfits who are fiercely proud to be different and don't give a toss what the "norms" think of them.” MTV

Named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2007

Jeanie gives her projects time. She's a serious, meticulous thinker, not a documentarist for the Big Brother Generation Lizzie Francke, Screen International

TEENLAND

Pick of the day in seven national newspapers.

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Amusing and affecting this fine documentary takes us places film-makers don't often reach.
Radio Times

Personal and touching...
...an alternative view to the tabloid image of teenagers as knife-wielding hoodies.
The Times

Jeanie Finlay's film reminded you how weird the teenager is, or – shudder of self-recognition – was.
The Times

Insightful.
The Observer

"an almost-fairytale atmosphere as we push the doors into the forbidden kingdom of teenage minds."
Four Docs

HOME-MAKER

This largely unprecedented, highly novel approach to portaiture brings up all kinds of touching details of life as it is lived between four walls, amid the dreadfully small collections of significant belongings, haunted by the enduring presence of lost loved ones....
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Mick Martin, The Guardian.

There’s a lot of poignancy in Home-Maker....a quiet celebration of the dignity to be found at the centre of a life if only one cares to ask the right questions....
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Mark Patterson, Nottingham Evening Post.

Jeanie Finlay’s Home-Maker is something of a miracle, actually making pensioners seem interesting....The whole experience is extremely absorbing and reminds you just how fascinating seemingly ordinary lives can be – like reality TV but without feeling as if you want to punch the people you’re watching.
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4/5**** Metro, Newcastle

Much closer to the characters than a standard documentary would allow, the format makes the prospect of being offered a cup of tea and asked if we’re ‘courting’ yet seem only a moment away.
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Wayne Burrows Metro, Nottingham

Modern culture’s long-standing obsession with youth makes Nottingham-based artist Jeanie Finlay’s interest in the lives and voices of the elderly something of a rarity
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Metro, Nottingham

Finlay’s Home-Maker takes the domestic space as a way of uncovering intimate truths about private and social identity, while Barker’s hugely influential Signs Of The Times used the apparently whimsical device of ordinary people talking about their interior décor to expose all the class and gender prejudices of the British.
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Metro, Nottingham

Part oral history, part documentary, Home Maker builds on the relationships that Finlay established...
Elayne Zalis, At Home with Cyber space PHD
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Second hand shops are filled with once-loved objects, detached from their owners and their history and transformed into bric-a-brac. It was this process that artist Jeanie Finlay wanted to capture as she dismantled her Home-Maker exhibition at Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery.
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Hannah Collier, Newcastle Evening Chronicle

A highly skilful piece of work, well thought out and spectacularly delivered... Undeniably poignant and interesting... Kate Dobson, Virtual Lancaster