£195.00

65% discount on the above price for schools, colleges and universities

Last Date was launched by Family Action at Islington Town Hall, London. The launch event film below captures feedback from professionals attending the event.

Last Date is a groundbreaking DV training drama from the makers of Leaving, designed to help audiences see the warning signs of coercive control and abuse.

The film:

Increases understanding of how abuse begins and traps people in relationships through the cycle of abuse
Provides preventative training for young people in schools, colleges and youth groups
Provides a medium for training people in the public and voluntary sectors to more easily recognise and support people suffering from domestic abuse

This training pack includes:

The Good Practice Guide is a supportive training resource which gives information and insights into the beginning, progression and repetition of abusive relationships and how subtle the original warning signs can be.

By using innovative storytelling techniques, Last Date fast-tracks the gradual nature of psychological and physical abuse and condenses it into a single night, making it clear for the viewer to see how such behaviour can take hold of a person’s life, and further escalate to entrap them in a dangerous, repetitive cycle.

“Last Date is a vital resource for trainers and practitioners to use to raise the issue of coercive control and abuse. I believe this will be a mainstay of DV training for many years to come.”

— Dr Emma Williamson, Head of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at University of Bristol

Highlighting key stages from charm, grooming, jealousy, humiliation, possessiveness, gaslighting, isolation, intimidation, threat and assault; Last Date’s aim is to empower the viewer with the watch outs and red flags of a potentially abusive person, enabling them to steer clear and move forward in their own lives with more respectful, healthier relationships.

It also has the power to generate discussion around roles and responsibilities within relationships and challenge perceptions and stereotypes but also the role of society as a whole in how it reacts and intervenes.

If Leaving’s purpose was to illustrate why victims of abuse don’t just leave, Last Date’s aim is to show how it begins and manifests.

Like its predecessor, Last Date can be used in a training capacity by experts working in the field of domestic abuse and violence to discuss this behaviour, but this time by those working in the education sector, such as safeguarding practitioners. This crossover also provides opportunities for both prospective users of the film to collaborate, so that trainers and schools, colleges and universities can work together to provide the very best service in education and prevention.

The filmmakers have gone to great lengths to ensure that the film is usable in a classroom setting and initial screenings have been resoundingly positive.

Starring new-comers Ellie Ekers and Perry Moore as Lori and Jack on their first date, the SFD team deliberately cast a couple on the right side of aspirational and relatable, who would be young enough to show experience and promise but not be so young that their situation and the film’s setting seemed unrealistic. By setting the film in a restaurant we deliberately step away from the well trodden tropes of depicting abuse to remove assumptions and show the behaviour for what it is.