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Shelby Cooke

My First Summer — Reimaging the Queer Coming-of-Age Summer Film | BFI Flare Review

Grace (Maiah Stewardson), a flamboyant and creative girl, witnesses the drowning of a local woman. While investigating the woman’s life…

2 min readMar 19, 2021

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My First Summer — Reimaging the Queer Coming-of-Age Summer Film | BFI Flare Review

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Shelby Cooke

Jump, Darling is the drag film for our generation | BFI Flare Review

Phil Connell’s feature debut, Jump, Darling, was inspired in part by his own conversations with his elderly grandmother. It’s not…

3 min readMar 18, 2021

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Jump, Darling is the drag film for our generation | BFI Flare Review

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Shelby Cooke

‘If It Were Love’ — Performance art makes its way to cinema in this beautifully sensual film | LFF…

The club is a recurring motif in films. It’s a space, dark and suffocating, flooded with people and noise, struck with flashes of coloured…

3 min readOct 14, 2020

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‘If It Were Love’ — Performance art makes its way to cinema in this beautifully sensual film | LFF…

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Shelby Cooke

‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ — Desperate Housewives meet Matilda in this wonderfully strange portrait…

They say: “don’t judge a book by its cover.” But is it okay to judge a film based on its stills?

3 min readOct 11, 2020

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‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ — Desperate Housewives meet Matilda in this wonderfully strange portrait…

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Shelby Cooke

Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement through cinematic education

Like the rest of the world, I have been appalled and horrified by the events that have been taking place since the aftermath of George…

6 min readJun 4, 2020

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Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement through cinematic education

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Shelby Cooke

Shelby Cooke

is a freelance culture and media writer. She has an MA in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. Her portfolio is at uppergroundproduction.com

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