Sweetheart
Luke Wintour
CAMP Productions
Director's Works
Luke Wintour is a director of film and theatre from London. His first film ‘Rat King’ was commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art and BBC. It screened at the ICA for one week and was broadcast on BBC 4. He is currently in post on ‘Haute Mess’ a feature documentary about drag performers from Oxford, executive produced by Ryan Murphy. Luke co-founded Freight Theatre, a company dedicated to innovative and political visual theatre. Luke has just graduated from the Jacques Lecoq International School. Sweetheart is his narrative debut.
Long before – like centuries before — “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” there were Molly Houses, queer underground clubs that operated in London in the 1700s.
Yes, the 1700s.
By day, these houses were regular coffeehouses, but at night, they turned into secret same-sex watering holes that included drag performances, sexual activity and more. There were up to more than two dozen houses throughout London at the height of their popularity.
Molly Houses — molly was a slang term for gay men in 18th century England — are brought to life in “Sweetheart,” a scripted short about a young man (Eben Figueiredo) being introduced to London’s secret queer subculture in 1723.
