A Hasidic Guide To Love, Marriage & Finding A Bride

BBC (2010)

With its trademark ringletted hairstyles, tall fur hats and long dark coats, the Hasidic Jewish community of Stamford Hill maintains a strictly 18th Century lifestyle in a 21st Century city. For the most part this community is reserved and publicity-shy, but Director Paddy Wivell spends six months in the company of a few people who decided it was time to let the rest of world inside their personal and religious lives.

‘A documentary brimful of life, joy and sweetness. In one sense this was straight-up anthropology, a no-frills peek inside a fascinating community. However it aimed much higher than that and achieved much more, taking us behind the frock coats and the rituals to the beating hearts of the people beneath.’- Daily Express

Photographer: Phil Fisk