Too Rough
Time For Love
Time for Love was published online by BBC The Social in April 2018. It has been watched by over 16 million people, inspired a growing LGBT movement in America called the Time for Love Project, led to a Ted X talk, been translated into 5 languages, won a Royal Television Society 2019 award, The John Byrne April 2018 Award, nominated for Prix Europa 2018, the Out D’or Award and longlisted for a London Outspoken Prize for Poetry award, and featured in Shortlist, Attitude, Pride, Indy 100, BBC Scotland news, Timeline on BBC Two and other publications.
News
“Sean Lionadh’s ‘Too Rough’ Acutely Captures Queer Lives On The Edge Of Domestic Collapse”
18/08/22
When I first saw Sean Lionadh’s Too Rough at this year’s Glasgow Shorts Film Festival, I was taken aback by both its evocation of a tough, lived-in atmosphere of dread as well as its capacity for empathy… Read more.
“One of the Most Intriguing
- If Not the Most Intriguing -
in Recent Memory”
17/08/22
TOO ROUGH is rhapsodic, transformative, packing a visceral whoosh with a hell of a punch. And remember: This is a film movie short that runs just over 15 minutes… Read more.
NOT NORMAL ANYMORE BY SEAN LÌONADH REVIEW
02/09/19
There is such finesse to how he crafts his poems, easing words into their intricate positions, creating such complexity of thought from the simplest of images. In his poem “Signs”, the persona laments the need to ascribe meaning to everything – a human compulsion. Read more.
SEAN LÌONADH ON ONLINE DATING AS A GAY MAN
25/09/19
We interviewed filmmaker Sean Lìonadh, whose short Tonight appears in SQIFF programme What Brings You On Here?, about being a gay man and online dating culture. Read more.
BBC boss to meet church leaders over 'offensive' film
26/04/18
Catholic Church leaders are to meet the head of BBC Scotland Donalda MacKinnon to discuss their concerns over a digital film about being gay in 2018. Read more.
68% of gay people don’t hold hands with their partners. This is why
11/04/18
…a stunning short film called ‘Time For Love’ - which went massively viral on Twitter in April - from Scottish poet and filmmaker Sean Lionadh, for BBC Scotland’s The Social, has captured exactly why gay men still don’t feel comfortable holding hands or kissing in public – even in Britain in 2018. Read more.