Heartstopper actor Joe Locke stars alongside Tom Cullen in queer drama Black Church Bay. The film director is Rhys Marc Jones.
In a remote Welsh coastal village, the disappearance of an openly-gay sixth form student disrupts the delicate balance of local life for one deputy head teacher, exposing long-buried secrets and threatening to tear the community apart.
Rather than treating the relationship as a straightforward forbidden romance, the story appears positioned to examine the enormous imbalance of power between an adult teacher and a teenage student, while asking what happens when a seemingly idyllic community is forced to confront the secrets hiding beneath its surface.
The film is scheduled to premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on October 15.
Joe Locke spent four years playing Charlie Spring, alongside Kit Connor, in Heartstopper, one of television’s gentlest gay love stories.
Watch the movie's trailer here or here.
