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(Documentary : 28 mins)

“Mee and My Dad” is a documentary that follows the film maker’s journey to Thailand, where his sixty year old dad is about to marry a twenty seven year old Thai woman called Mee.

The film has been selected for the 2008 Sheffield International Documentary Festival and has also won the director, Lorne Kramer, Channel 4’s prestigious Emerging Talent award for Documentary.


Director - Lorne Kramer

Producer - Helen Bentley

Camera - Becky Bell

2nd Camera - Neville Powis

Sound - Daniel Postlethwaite

Editor - Lorn Kramer, Becky Bell

Music - Sasha Biskup

Titles - Tom Rawles

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  • timebasedmedia 1 year ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Jo Laur 10 months ago
    so strange to see your dad without a beard - Very moving - thank-you
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  • Eve Barlow 10 months ago
    Beautiful and moving. Ralph and Jenny must be very proud of their son. Fond memories of Calstock.
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  • Pete, frogblogger 6 months ago
    Very good, balanced, thought-provoking, moving... excellent all round. Not the same age difference, but as a Chiang Mai expat myself, with a younger wife and two inherited kids, many chords indeed were struck.

    Really impressed by the maturity of the son.
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  • Fadedcactus 6 months ago
    Impressive and very touching. Your mother and father must be proud of you.
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  • Barry Corbishley 6 months ago
    Wow, moving stuff, well filmed and true to the point, being here in Bangkok and leaving 3 daughters behind in UK albeit they had all reached 16 ! How similar !
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  • Harry Barracuda 5 months ago
    "I'm part of the village". Obviously Dad doesn't know he's the village idiot.

    Som Num Na farang.
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  • bakerboy 5 months ago
    Best Foreign Husband Competition:
    youtube.com/watch?v=XyItcYF0tqM
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  • cspielberger plus 5 months ago
    great !
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  • donny 5 months ago
    Superb.
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  • david hasselhoff 5 months ago
    I really, really feel sorry for this guy's son. But the young man seems to see through his father's bullshit.
    As for the father, he's the spitting image of 90% of the old

    UK farts here. Know-it-alls ALL

    Village idiot.
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  • itsme 5 months ago
    i think david is jealous
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  • allan oliver 3 months ago
    i knew lorne from when he was a student in plymouth. he's older than me so it would be ironic to say i think the way he bonded with his father showed maturity. but it's no surprise to me, he was always a fun nice guy. and his mother was a great teacher.
    also i was seperated from dad growing up (admittedly, only by twenty miles) and today is his birthday. watching this has moved me to tears and made me feel lucky and guilty in equal parts.
    and its great to hear the local cornish accent on screen
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  • Nicholas Page 2 months ago
    Great stuff mate!

    You have created something very moving, and found a positive twist on something that must have been very tough for you.
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  • Mike Lewis 1 month ago
    Happiness comes in different ways. A very good documentary. Better than reading 'No money, No honey'.
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