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Summary The thirty-sixth and penultimate short film produced by documentary filmmaker Tom Harmer as part of the 52Humans project. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic and released weekly for a year, the story of Jean Hoggard who used her troubled upbringing to become a councillor with a desire to help other within the Ovenden near Halifax community and establish the Noah’s Arc Centre. Following thirty-years of service Jean is awarded an OBE by Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.
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The thirty-sixth and penultimate short film produced by documentary filmmaker Tom Harmer as part of the 52Humans project. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic and released weekly for a year, the story of Jean Hoggard who used her troubled upbringing to become a councillor with a desire to help other within the Ovenden near Halifax community and establish the Noah’s Arc Centre. Following thirty-years of service Jean is awarded an OBE by Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.
Title: Gifted...
The thirty-sixth and penultimate short film produced by documentary filmmaker Tom Harmer as part of the 52Humans project. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic and released weekly for a year, the story of Jean Hoggard who used her troubled upbringing to become a councillor with a desire to help other within the Ovenden near Halifax community and establish the Noah’s Arc Centre. Following thirty-years of service Jean is awarded an OBE by Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.
Title: Gifted
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Over a montage of photographs of her as a small child, Jean Hoggard talks about her difficult early life with parents who weren’t happy and her fear of her father. Standing beside a church Jean looks down at the ground as she talks about her own temper which she believes stemmed from her upbringing.
A montage of the village of Ovenden near Halifax and images of what was the Noah’s Arc Inn on Ovenden Road. As Jean walks with a stick she talks about becoming a councillor and wanting to help people changing to a montage of images showing the inn being transformed into the Noah’s Arc Centre as a place in the community where people can come and get help. Over more images of people at the centre Jean talks about the work she and the centre have done to help people in the local community.
As Jean stands in the doorway of the church the following title.
Title: In 2010 Jean was nominated for an OBE for 30 years’ service to her community
As she talks about the experience of being nominated, believing it to be because of other people’s efforts, she goes onto also talk about the day itself over a montage of images including her receiving her award from Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.
A close up of Jean’s face as she begins to smile.
Title: “I think it’s a gift just loving people” Jean
End title: www. 52Humans.com
