The Wild Ones


Impact Pupil Referral Unit, in Bootle, Liverpool, provides a last chance for teenagers expelled from school to gain qualifications. This term, seven pupils get to leave the Unit to try a new way of learning in an unlikely sanctuary for rescued horses, in the heart of this run-down neighborhood. Run by local resident Bernadette Langfield, several wild ponies that she saved from being culled need taming. But these horses, like the pupils have their own troubled backgrounds and in order for a relationship between them to develop, both horses and teenagers have to first deal with their own behavioral difficulties.


Lucy Kaye


Born in London, Lucy Kaye graduated from the National Film and Television School, UK in 2009. Prior to coming to the school she studied Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre in Manchester, where she went on to work as an Assistant Producer with director Marc Isaacs on prominent BBC Documentary films. Her graduation films were screened at festivals world wide and she has gone on to direct a documentary film for Channel Four .