‘Baby Boy’ is a film about a taxi driver’s repressed sexuality and drug addiction coming together over a weekend in London with his younger queer lover. Greg Hall co-wrote and directed the film, and in this episode of the podcast discusses the ambiguity of it alongside some of the deeper meanings of the motifs in ‘Baby Boy’ and how these came about.

Greg explores the social realism of the film with host Robert, and explains why this was important to him and co-writer George Russo. They delve into how Greg and George wanted to challenge the norms of films that are about and for working class audiences and how they got into filmmaking to begin with.

To listen to the episode - https://anchor.fm/iris-prize-podcast

To watch the film - https://www.irisprize.org/