Gentry Day - The Video!
Gentry Day is a grand day out. It’s also a social phenomenon unique in the arena of English football.
The Gentry Day film, produced by Wet Zebra Media in association with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), celebrates a day away at the football for the followers of Preston North End Football Club (and other supporters too).
Gentry Day has become a footballing Mardi Gras with bowler hats and other forms of fancy dress - and a form of remembrance and thanksgiving for friendships, football memories and fellow fans, players and servants of Preston North End who have passed away.
This film celebrates the day through the voices of those fans, using studio-recorded interviews and social media material from Lilywhite followers who participated in the project by using the hashtag #GentryDay.
The narrative traces the origins of Gentry Day from the 1970s through to its modern manifestations of party-cum-wake, sparked into life as they were by the tragic early death of a prominent PNE supporter.
Part-social history, part-remembrance celebration, Gentry Day is one hundred per cent a jubilant exposition of the beating heart of football and its fans.
Gentry Day - The Film
Gentry Day is a grand day out. It’s also a social phenomenon unique in the arena of English football.
The Gentry Day film, produced by Wet Zebra Media in association with the @University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), celebrates a day away at the football for the followers of Preston North End Football Club (and other supporters too).
Gentry Day has become a footballing Mardi Gras with bowler hats and other forms of fancy dress - and a form of remembrance and thanksgiving for friendships, football memories and fellow fans, players and servants of Preston North End who have passed away.
This film celebrates the day through the voices of those fans, using studio-recorded interviews and social media material from Lilywhite followers who participated in the project by using the hashtag #GentryDay.
The narrative traces the origins of Gentry Day from the 1970s through to its modern manifestations of party-cum-wake, sparked into life as they were by the tragic early death of a prominent PNE supporter.
Part-social history, part-remembrance celebration, Gentry Day is one hundred per cent a jubilant exposition of the beating heart of football and its fans.
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