After winning UK’s The X Factor, young queer man Dalton Harris receives prejudiced backlash from his home country Jamaica. Award-winning director Kim Longinotto beautifully captures Dalton’s search for love and acceptance.
Velvet-voiced Dalton Harris thought his dreams had come true when he won one of the world’s top talent competitions. He was the first non-British and Black man to win, and it came with a million-pound recording deal. But the thrill of a new lifestyle and new boyfriend, and the launch of his first single soon sours. He becomes the target of homophobic death threats, predominantly from Jamaica – a nation with one of the highest rates of anti-LGBTQ violence in the world. Directors Kim Longinotto (
Shooting the Mafia, SFF 2019) and Franky Murray Brown filmed Dalton over four years, as he faced very difficult choices, but also the opportunity to truly be himself.