Last Date is a groundbreaking domestic violence and abuse film resource, 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

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.

Highlighting key stages from charm, grooming, jealousy, humiliation, possessiveness, gaslighting, isolation, intimidation, threat and assault; the aim of Last Date 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.