Reading to Recovery – a cinematic journey

Reading to Recovery (2019), a film entered into the 2019 Recovery Street Film Festival receives a full write up by Bob Usherwood in CILIP's Information Professional magazine.

The film, one of the favourites in last years festival was directed by Rohan Patel, a 20-year-old politics and sociology student at Leeds University with an interest in video, Lee’s Book Club at Westcotes Library in Leicester was “an incredible story that needed telling”.

The film tells the story of the Lee’s Book Club, named after it’s founder Lee Ayres, a homeless man and avid reader. Members of the book club are made up of mainly people who are homeless, many recovering from problematic drug and alcohol use. Judges of the festival were very impressed with the film and the way that the story was told, out of the 10 shortlisted films reading to recovery received the third place award.

The full write up of the article that appeared in CILIP's Information Professional magazine can be found here . Reading to Recovery the film entered into the Recovery Street Film Festival can be watched below.