Kit Vincent was a 24-year-old film and anthropology student when doctors discovered he had an incurable brain tumour. He was given eight years at most, and that was only if an operation could be performed. So he decided to record his life — what remained of it — and turned his camera on his family as they grappled with the big questions thrown up by his diagnosis. Over the course of three years he compiled a documentary, Red Herring, which won Best UK Feature at last year’s Raindance Film Festival.
“I don’t want it to be a sad film; it doesn’t have to be sad,” he tells the camera at one point. Sometimes it is deeply tragic; at other times it is darkly funny,
