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The Flapping Track
Producer/Director: Daniel Gordon Co-Producer: John Battsek A VeryMuchSo Production in Association with Passion Pictures for the BBC. This observational film goes behind the scenes of Highgate Greyhound Stadium in Barnsley. Owners, trainers, gamblers, cigarette smugglers, bookmakers, children and pensioners gather to participate in the sport, camaraderie and wise-cracking that give the track a unique appeal. The facilities are primitive. This is a raw, authentic sporting experience where serious amounts of money change hands. At the heart of the community are the dogmen, a rare breed whose passion for their dogs and their sport transport this film takes the viewer into a world facing extinction in the sanitised, nanny state of 21st century Britain. "Here, mottled jowls flap with suspicion ("Tricky? You can't trust 'im!"), thin dogs in quilted gilets shiver with anticipation and a way of life gets slowly, painfully squished beneath the sprinting paw of progress. Lovely". Sarah Dempster, The Guardian. "What began as a film about the erosion of working-class tradition in the face of big business ended up a celebration of � no pun intended � dogged persistence and family bonds". The Scotsman
Directed by:Daniel Gordon,