Director:
John Dower  
Producer:
John Battsek
DP:

Frederic Fabre

  Editor: Jake Martin

From the producers of Academy Award® winning One Day in September.

At the beginning of the Nineties something happened in Britain. And it was great. The Eighties had been crap. Crap politics and crap music.

Live Forever is a film about a period in the Nineties when anything seemed possible. Britain was of a time, of a people, of a place, which captured the world’s imagination. A bright new culture deserved a bright new government. And it seemed, for a little while at least, that Britain had one.

Live Forever is a story that builds to that moment in the Nineties when the politicians recognised the emergence of a vibrant British popular culture and seized it, guerrilla-fashion, to re-brand the country.

In the mid-Nineties Britain was swinging again and Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe captured the mood of the times; a swaggering and epic celebration of the joys of living purely for the moment. Along with Pulp and Blur, Oasis had kick-started an upsurge in home-grown musical talent. It heralded a new music scene, which became known as Britpop.

But it wasn’t just the music. British galleries, catwalks and records were the envy of the rest of the world. British culture rocked and cool Britannia had arrived.

Genre: Documentary   Country: UK
Status:
Completed
Language: English
Year of Production:
2002   Running Time: 82 mins
Festivals Screened : 2002 – London
2003 – NatFilm, Hot Docs, Emden, Pula, Athens, Helsinki, Romania,
AFI (International Documentary Competition), Stockholm, Gijon