A year later, Leah told Louise she was planning to release Bel’s debut album.<\/p>\n
“And I said, do you want a documentary to go along with that? She said, yes, please.”<\/p>\n
That was four years ago, and the resulting film, Bel, has just closed the Edinburgh International Film Festival and will tour Scottish cinemas before being screened on the BBC.<\/p>\n
For Louise, access to the archive of personal videos was invaluable.<\/p>\n
“It was really important to give Bel the opportunity to speak for herself since she’s not here now,” she says.<\/p>\n
“I’d seen a couple of tiny clips of her video diary that she’d actually filmed herself watching.<\/p>\n
“And I always wondered, where’s that tape? We did a lot of searching and we found it in a camera.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year later, Leah told Louise she was planning to release Bel’s debut album. “And I said, do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}