Love and Trouble

Taking away one fear at a time

Love and Trouble Kenny and Kerry both come to their wedding with high ideals and hidden pasts. Filmed over the first ten years of their marriage, Love & Trouble explores identity, shame, anger and love. A rollercoaster of horses, race-cars, therapy, psychiatric drugs and wild swimming.
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Kenny and Kerry marry with secrets that almost blow their young family apart. After their new baby is born, Kenny's PTSD is triggered by his crying. Kenny no longer knows what is real, calls it ‘the screams’. It seems the marriage is over. But Kerry makes a choice- to return to school, study how the brain works, and discover that suffering isn’t a given- you can “use thoughts to change feelings”. We follow their recovery over ten years, through psychiatric medication, talking therapy, horses, race-cars and ice swimming as they emerge with new insights and resilience for their life ahead.
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The Producers


Amy Hardie - Director, Producer

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Amy Hardie

Amy Hardie’s THE EDGE OF DREAMING, was the first Scottish feature documentary in competition at IDFA 2009 and awarded the Grand Jury Prize, Kiev International Film Festival. Amy graduated from NFTS in 1990 with the BP Expo Prize for best student documentary: KAFI’S STORY. Her most recent film, SEVEN SONGS FOR A LONG LIFE was shown in over 100 UK cinemas before international festival screenings including SXSW and Margaret Mead. It's the first documentary in the UK to be ‘prescribed’ by doctors for their patients in over 240 GP centres. It doubled usual BBC Scotland audience share at 9 pm, and had a profound impact internationally on both patients, health professionals and policy makers. Amy is a mentor for BFI and Scottish Doc Institute grantees and currently executive producers on BBC Scotland: ‘Long Live My Happy Head’ about Comic Book Artist Gordon Shaw and ‘The Hermit Of Loch Treig’, awarded 2nd prize at the Whickers 2020.


Sonja Henrici - Producer

Sonja Henrici is an international BAFTA-nominated producer of multiple international feature
documentaries: MERKEL (Netflix/Telluride 2022), THE OIL MACHINE (IDFA 2022/CPHDox)
BECOMING ANIMAL (CPH DOX 2018); TIME TRIAL, a film with ex-cyclist David Millar (IDFA 2017 &
SXSW); DONKEYOTE (2017) (EIFF Best Feature Documentary); SEVEN SONGS FOR A LONG
LIFE (2015) (SxSW 2016); I AM BREATHING (2013) “One of the year’s most moving films.”
(Hollywood Reporter); FUTURE MY LOVE (2012). Her films have screened on all continents, in over 60 countries. She is an innovative and resourceful creative producer with deep knowledge across the whole value chain. She joined Scottish Documentary Institute at its inception in 2004 and was instrumental in developing SDI into a flourishing talent hub for creative documentary, renowned
world-wide. She was co-founder of SDI Productions (2007) and co-director of the Institute from 2013-2020, leading it to its charitable status. She was a founding trustee of the charity until 2020. In 2021 she set up Sonja Henrici Creates Ltd for all her future creative and production work. She’s an RSA Fellow, a member of AMPAS and BAFTA

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