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LOLLIPOP: Daisy-May Hudson on Depicting the Heartbreaking Impact of a Failing Care System

LOLLIPOP: Daisy-May Hudson on Depicting the Heartbreaking Impact of a Failing Care System

Update: 2025-06-09
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In this episode we’re joined by Daisy-May Hudson whom we last spoke to as part of our London Film Festival coverage alongside co-director Sophie Compton for their feature documentary Holloway. Today, Daisy-May returns as the writer-director of feature drama Lollipop, which stars a captivating Posy Sterling as a young woman newly released from prison after serving four months, who is forced to struggle against a not fit for purpose child protection system to regain custody of her children. With Lollipop arriving on cinema screens this week as part of its Q&A tour, before being released nationwide on the 13th June, Sarah caught up with Daisy-May to learn all about how she made the move from documentary to narrative features.
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LOLLIPOP: Daisy-May Hudson on Depicting the Heartbreaking Impact of a Failing Care System

LOLLIPOP: Daisy-May Hudson on Depicting the Heartbreaking Impact of a Failing Care System

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