At the cinema: "Communal crying in the dark with strangers"

Q&A with Jeanie Finlay Stickers! On Sunday morning I read: The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide, The Nerve. It’s about the Teesside developments, the sudden sea life die-off there, and the documentary exposing it.As luck would have it, that documentary, All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, was having a preview screening the same evening in Brighton. And a live Q&A with the director, Jeanie Finlay! We headed over and watched.Notes: I was aware of the infuriating “web of deception” and the “scandalous giveaway” at the Teesside developments via the reporting in Private Eye. It’s the same scumbag names featuring in this film. FFS. The Environment Agency are useless again. FFS. Hope: independent scientific data is making the difference in getting to answers. It’s in cinemas, proper, from Friday (23 October 2026). As a documentary about dredging in the north east, it may not be shown on the big screen for the many months that it deserves. Go see it!* *…