Now approaching his 80th year the brilliant and inspiring director John Boorman is one of the last great mavericks, having directed over 17 films including Point Blank, Excalibur and Deliverance, made numerous documentaries and written several books. Me and me Dad is a revealing study of this difficult, charismatic and elusive man by one who should know him best: his daughter Katrine. Katrine, who previously had never held a camera, follows and films her father over a period of four years. Throughout, John attempts to control the entire process. He offers up a crash course masterclass in directing films. With her father as her teacher Katrine creates an intimate and surprising journey. Vulnerable, cross, funny, nostalgic, wild and wise, Boorman chronicles his adventures in Hollywood but he also talks with great honesty about his childhood, his marriages, his passion for nature, his need for danger and why film is the only thing he ever truly loved. What begins as a study of Boorman becomes the story of the Boorman family. A vivid narrative of a perfectly imperfect family emerges and we see the chaos and difficulties his chosen path imposed on those closest to him. A funny and honest history is told by one of film’s true survivors, Me and me Dad is a portrait of one of the most influential British filmmakers of the last 40 years. But most of all it is a story of a father and daughter finding their way back to each other through the language of film.

Katrine Boorman spent three years with the Grand orchestre du Splendide before acting in Marche à l’ombre, Camille Claudel, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, Gazon Maudit to name but a few. She has also starred in theatre productions Beelzebub Sonata and Antonin Artaud as well as in opera’s Oedipus Rex and Persephone. More recently Katrine executive produced the feature film Boogie Woogie before directing her debut documentary film Me and me Dad.