TOM PARKER: INSIDE MY HEAD
NOMINATED: NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARD (BEST AUTHORED DOCUMENTARY)
90 minute feature-length documentary film for Channel 4 and Stand Up To Cancer | Spun Gold TV
Filmed, Produced and Directed
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“This was a film about so many things: cancer treatment during Covid, the specific cruelty of brain tumours, the gruelling reality of treatment, the inequality of accessing the latest medicine and a young family facing an unpredictable future with courage… Heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure, it was a privilege
to watch.”
★★★★★ The I
“When it came to that final concert, no sentient mammal could fail to be moved as Parker took his bow.”
★★★★★ The Telegraph
“Deeply moving.”
Daily Mail
Filmed, Produced and Directed by Dan Howell
Senior Producer: Alice O’Brien | Film Editor: Dominic Coke
Original Music By: Rob Manning | Executive Producers: Nick Bullen, Lee Connolly
Assistant Producer: Callum McCulloch | Production Manager: Alex Ward
Interview Director of Photography: Patrick Smith
Cover Image Credit: Alun Callender
Feature-length film following the late Tom Parker of boyband The Wanted as he and his family navigate life with an inoperable
brain tumour.
I had the privilege to spend eight months filming with Tom, his wife Kelsey and their family after Tom was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour called a glioblastoma multiforme in October 2020. When I met Tom, he was asking himself difficult questions about his and his family’s future, the life he’s lived to date, and his experiences with fame as a young man. The film spools back and forth between past and present as Tom reckons with these questions while planning a comeback concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Tom also assesses the current landscape of treatment for brain tumours and the limited scope of access to clinical trials, calling for this to be expanded.
The film received great feedback from the brain tumour community, as well as from Tom and his family.
