Dreamers

How Duck Soup Films made Lost Boys & Fairies and Dreamers

Five young people stand indoors, looking into the camera

This was Libby Durdy, co-founder of Leeds-based Duck Soup Films, the production company behind acclaimed BBC One show Lost Boys & Fairies, discussing the origins of its Channel 4 drama series Dreamers at an RTS event last month.

Described by creator and writer of the show Lisa Holdsworth, as “the kids from Fame, but in Leeds”, Dreamers is a show about the lives, loves, friendships and rivalries of a teenage dance troupe set in and around the city’s Chapeltown area.