Tea 'N Chat - WOMAN GROWS JEANS + Justine Aldersey-Williams

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TEA 'N CHAT - Woman Grows Jeans + Justine Aldersey-Williams

(Short Film Showing)

02 DECEMBER 2025

TIME: 7-8pm  

FEE: $5 (charged when you sign up on Kinema website)

This event is held virtually and you will be sent a link to the online screening, which will be available to view for 7 days. The Q&A will be on ZOOM, so please register to get details for links to both.

Grab yourself a cuppa and find a comfy chair to watch this 50 minute film documenting the 'field to fashion' production of the U.K.'s first pair of homegrown jeans from Northern England Fibreshed's founder, JUSTINE ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS who will join us to answer questions about her journey to grow and make the jeans.

About the film

In the industrial heartland of British textiles, a community sets out to do something unprecedented - grow jeans from scratch. With hopes of helping regenerate harmful fashion systems, they begin planting flax and indigo, spinning yarn, and weaving cloth.

When the dream of bringing them to market falters, the challenge of creating a prototype is taken on by Justine Aldersey-Williams, transforming the experiment into a personal rite of passage. What unfolds is a tender, radical act of reconnection: to land, lineage, lost skills, and the ‘more-than-human’ world.

Woman Grows Jeans explores what it really means to rewild our world, our wardrobes and ourselves. At once a protest and a prayer, this is slow fashion as provocation - sown by hand, infused with love, and stitched with hope. For anyone who’s ever wondered if a different future is possible, this pioneering story shows that the power to create change is still in our hands.

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 0h 50m

Released: 2025

Director: Justine Aldersey-Williams

Producer: Perelandra Beedles

Executive Producer: Nick Beedles

Cast:

Anthony Green, Ali Sharman, Betty Beedles, Carole Bowman, Charlie Mallon, Chelsea Canovas, BBC Countryfile Team, Helen Keys, Homegrown Homespun volunteers, Jane McCann, Jenni Jones, Justine Aldersey-Williams, Kirsty Leadbetter, Laurie Peake, Mark Palmer, Mohsin Sajid, Patrick Grant, Perelandra Beedles, Simon Cooper, The Wild Dyery students