AWARDS

DAISY-MAY HUDSON | ACTIVIST IMPACT AWARD WINNER, GIRLS IN FILM AWARDS 2026

POSY STERLING & IDIL AHMED, LOLLIPOP | BEST FEMALE FRIENDSHIP ON SCREEN WINNER, GIRLS IN FILM AWARDS 2026

POSY STERLING, LOLLIPOP | BAFTA RISING STAR NOMINEE, 2026

POSY STERLING, LOLLIPOP | BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE WINNER, BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2025

HOLLOWAY | BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE, BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2025

DAISY-MAY HUDSON | TALENT OF TOMORROW WINNER, DINARD FILM FESTIVAL 2025

HOLLOWAY | AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER, LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2025

UNSEEN KINGDOMS X BODY SHOP X CHANNEL 4 X YOUTH HOMELESSNESS | CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR WINNER, THE DRUM AWARDS 2021

HALF WAY | BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE, BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2017

HALF WAY | BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE, GRIERSON AWARDS 2017

DAISY-MAY HUDSON | ACTIVIST OF THE YEAR, HUCK MAGAZINE 2017

LOLLIPOP

The Debut Directors of My Fathers Shadow, Pillion & Lollipop, Screen Daily, 2026

★★★★★ The Upcoming, Review, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop review – impassioned, head-butting indictment of the social-care system, Peter Bradshaw, Guardian, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop is heartbreaking - we may have found the next Ken Loach, The i Paper, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop Review - a gut punching debut, Little White Lies, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop Review - a mother’s battle to get her children back from care, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop review: this socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewing, 2025

★★★★ Lollipop Review, Empire, 2025

Film Of The Week: There’s an extraordinary scene in Daisy-May Hudson’s excellent fiction feature debut that is as wrenchingly powerful as anything I have seen in the cinema this year, Observer, 2025

“Joy is the fundamental element of the story”: Daisy-May Hudson and Posy Sterling on their new film Lollipop, The Stylist, 2025

"Excellent" British drama with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is now streaming on the BBC, Digital Spy, 2025

Lollipop: A 'timely' film about the realities of the social care system, ITV TV, 2025

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children, Big Issue, 2025

The real-life story behind the film Lollipop, The Observer, 2025

From homelessness to filmmaking: Daisy-May Hudson on her furious new film Lollipop, Independent, 2025

Daisy-May Hudson’s Lollipop Lands UK & Ireland Release, Screen Daily, 2025

Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Lollipop’ Is a Heartbreaking Portrait of Maternal Resilience and Devastating Systemic Failure, Directors Notes, 2025

Scummy Mummies Podcast, 2025

★★★★ - Lollipop, Edinburgh Review, Screen Daily, 2024

Edinburgh Film Festival 2024: 12 of the best movies in show, Peter Bradshaw, Guardian, 2024

‘Polite Society’ Producers Launch BBC and BFI-Backed ‘Lollipop,’ New Sales Outfit Architect to Launch Sales at EFM, Variety 2024

Edinburgh Film Festival: 9 Brilliant films to book tickets for now, Timeout, 2024

Cannes 2023: What’s In The Running?, Screen Daily, 2024

Edinburgh Film Festival World Premieres, Screen Daily, 2024

Ten films to see at Edinburgh Film Festival, The Skinny, 2024

Eye For Film Lollipop Review, 2024

Lollipop in Suck it & See, Sight and Sound Magazine 2023