Private Project

BOB (working title)

'Sneak Peek' rushes preview. Shot on location in Amsterdam. All rights reserved.

The 'Sneak Peek' rushes reel of Bob: Man of The Angels got its first theatrical outing with a live audience at Lighthouse Cinema in June 2024, one of the UK's four nationally important regional arts venues. And it seems the audience really liked what they saw...

Presented by Dan Glass, Dan de la Motte and Szymon Adamczak. Directed by Rob Falconer. Co-produced by Rob Falconer and the late Andrew Lumsden.

The project was the creative swansong of a quietly legendary activist and humanitarian. Andrew was one of the original instigators of arguably Europe's very first 1972 Pride march and broke completely new ground taking his formidable skill and experience of Fleet Street to founding the groundbreaking Gay News newspaper so that "our people could read what we thought and we wrote". Andrew sadly died after the first filming block of Bob: Man of The Angels. His always benign presence continues to drive this film.

Expected completion/release 2025.

  • Rob Falconer
    Director
  • Andrew Lumsden
    Producer
  • Rob Falconer
    Producer
  • Dan Glass
    Key Cast
    "himself"
    An AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, presenter, and successful author. Recognised as Attitude Magazine’s 'campaigning role models for LGBTQI youth', a Guardian ‘UK youth climate leader’, 2017 'Activist of the Year' with the 'Sexual Freedom Awards' and a 'BBC Greater Londoner' (2019) for founding 'Queer Tours of London’. His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was Observer Book of the Week. Dan has been highly active in Gaza in 2024, raising awareness of the real-word situations of civilians caught in the current Gaza conflict with Israel.
  • Dan de la Motte
    Key Cast
    "himself"
    A highly accomplished actor/performer, presenter, activist and creative practitioner. Performance work includes Too Much Pills & Liquor (The Divine, London “an explosive, savagely funny, magnetic performance”) On Railton Road (Museum of the Home, Arts Council England, dir Ian Giles), Be More Mushroom (St Margaret’s House, Bethnal Green, co-Artist-in-Residence for 6 months), Live to Tell: (A Proposal For) The Madonna Jukebox Musical (Omnibus Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre), Route 158 (Punchdrunk Enrichment schools tour), Rock n Roll Nature Revelation (festivals tour with Timberlina). 2024 work will include Moonbeam Magic (silent movie based in Hackney). As a presenter, host, and workshop leader Dan has worked with and for, among others, Unicorn Theatre, Yard Theatre, Museum of London, Queer Tours of London and National Portrait Gallery.
  • Szymon Adamczak
    Key Cast
    "himself"
    Dramaturg, theatre and performance maker with a vital interest in HIV-related culture. In performing arts he creates relationships and collaborations between public institutions and independent artists working across disciplines. Szymon weaves poetic imagination and visual sensitivity with socially aware actions taking place onstage and in the public realm. A special interest is the broad legacy of response to HIV and AIDS. As an artist affiliated with Biennale Warszawa he initiated and runs research platform “Polish EIDS”. He lives in Amsterdam, works for STUDIO theatregallery in Warsaw as dramaturg, and volunteers for HIV Vereniging, for people living with HIV.
  • Tristan van Doorn
    Director of Photography
    Dutch D.o.P. and director Tristan trained at the New York Film Academy. With Doorn Eden Films features successfully released to widescale streaming (Prime Video, and more) such as forthcoming horror Diabolisch. His 94min documentary Nederland in Oorlogstijd is anually seen in The Netherlands, recounting first-hand stories of the Dutch Liberation from occupation.
  • Boris Peters
    Second Camera
  • Paul Verhallen
    Sound Recordist
    Graduate from Utrecht’s Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, BAT Sound Design. Extensive experience in sound post-production as a sound recordist on location for short films and TV documentaries, audiobooks and podcasts. Credits include sound design and mixing for on a variety of documentaries and TV/online for Paramount. Dutch film credits include Kool, Treurzang, award winning Complete and LGBT short Hartenprins (Prince of Hearts).
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 58 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Rob Falconer

Starting 25 years back, LGBTQIA+ work includes producer Speaking In Riddles (LLGFF National Film Theatre London, Frameline San Francisco, Turin, Netherlands art house tour, UK retail release), director/producer 27000 with CRUSAID (to 160,000 on Clapham Common for Pride), director/producer Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex ‘97, (LLGFF National Film Theatre London, Europe, USA and Australia theatrical, UK/USA commercial release, Virgin retail No.1). On returning to filmmaking in the 2020s, director/producer #ReclaimPride, director/producer 27000@25: When We Were Boys with Jimmy Somerville and Erasure through the World AIDS 2021 Day Rock The Ribbon period, which traversed the world in 7 languages exclusively across Erasure's official online channels (despite YouTube's unsuccessful attempts to ban it to U18s), and work broadcast in the Stephen Daldry/Joe Robertson produced Freedom: 50 Years of Pride. New short Sleeping Dragon is an eerie, emotionally charged screen adaptation of the writing and stunning visual art of the late George Hodson, one of the UK's longest HIV survivors. It debuted in London along with a new 2024 Director's Cut of Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex 97 to a sold-out main house theatre at Barbican Cinema in April and then KASHISH 2024 in Mumbai, India. Pride 50 film Legendary Children [All of Them Queer] has played KASHISH 2023 in India, one of Spain's biggest Prides Winter Pride Gran Canaria, Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival in the US and London's Cinema Museum. Legendary Children began its UK arthouse cinema life in June 2024 in a double bill with Sleeping Dragon at Lighthouse Arts centre's Lighthouse Cinema (Picturehouse), one of the UK's four nationally important regional arts venues, followed by two SW UK Prides in 2024. Gay Man's to Safer Sex returned to the US big screen with its 2024 Director's Cut an Official Selection at Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Sept 2024.

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