The Hunt is my very own “if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry” ode to the shit show that is, renting in London.  Prices are rising, rooms are shrinking, and sanity dwindling. In my own renting experience, I’d had my rent doubled, navigated a series of toxic housemates, undergone bizarre interview style house viewings, and I thought to myself, are we all losing our minds?

 

While soaring rental costs are now frequently making news headlines, I couldn't help but feel that the stories the media portrayed didn't even scratch the surface.  So, if you're lucky enough to be a homeowner, you really cannot realise the pressure facing renters today. I decided this was a conversation I wanted to start, so I wrote a script compiled of my own and many other's experiences. 

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I said to myself, if I made a film about this what would it look like? I came back with three words: angry, feminine, and chaotic.​​

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 I knew I wanted it to feel mad, and having acted since the age of 5, I was heavily influenced by theatrical comedic devices. I'm also a huge fan of director's such as  Edgar Wright and Emerald Fennel’s, so I fused them all together to come up with a script that I felt could deliver the message in a mad, funny and stylised way. 

The Hunt is a comedy, but underneath the laughs, it’s a scream.