Blind Spot: Film screening and Q&A

Blind Spot is screening at Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 17 November, from 5pm to 6.30pm in Studio 74. It's a short film followed by a Q&A about how it was made, and it's part of the Alright Mate? festival, which runs across Exeter and Moretonhampstead.

Blind Spot started as a series of interviews with men living in Devon, and it uses humour to look at the roadblocks men run into when they try to talk openly about how they're feeling. The original project was an intimate live performance staged inside a car, which put the audience unusually close to conversations about masculinity, vulnerability and mental health. This short film version keeps the humour and honesty of that original while opening it up to a wider audience.

It's being screened as part of the Alright Mate? festival, run by the Devon arts organisation Alright Mate? CIC. They use participatory arts projects to encourage conversations about men's mental health and have produced work like Jest for Men, Invisible Dads and Cracking. The festival brings people together through comedy, film, music and shared activities in pubs, community spaces and cultural venues across Exeter and Moretonhampstead, and it won the Community Group Award at the BBC Radio Devon Make a Difference Awards 2026.

Tickets are £5, with a £1.50 ticketing system charge on top. The screening runs from 5pm to 6.30pm in Studio 74 at Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 17 November, with the Q&A following the film.