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Matthew Kay

Matthew Kay is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Walks of Life Films. His documentaries have gone on to screen at festivals across Europe and be broadcast on television.

December 2014

  • Holot

    Guardian Africa network
    African migrants speak out about life in Israel's detention centres

    In September the supreme court ruled that Holot detention centre should close within 90 days. Still open as the deadline looms, a film shot in April this year captures the lives of Sudanese and Eritrean refugees sent to this centre deep in the Negev desert

May 2013

  • Jasper IF comp runner up

    Intergenerational Foundation young film-makers' short film winners
    Young filmmaker documentary runner-up: Shape Up - video

    Shape Up is Jasper Kain and Matthew Kay's highly commended film in the Intergenerational Foundation young filmmakers' short film competition. The film is shot in Hackney, east London, and explores how young people there feel trapped by their lack of prospects

December 2012

  • Whitehall cleaners: London living wage campaign

    Whitehall cleaners: London living wage campaign

    The accounts of two cleaners campaigning for the London Living Wage in the offices of cabinet ministers in Whitehall

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