Free Party: A Folk History

An independently made feature documentary charting the birth of the free party movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and how its impact sparked a revolution around the world, from raves and festivals to politics and protest.

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new-age travellers during Margaret Thatcher’s last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992 – the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act.