Photographing Fairies

Photographing Fairies
Directed byNick Willing
Written byNick Willing
Chris Harrald
Based onPhotographing Fairies
by Steve Szilagyi
Produced byMichele Carmarda
StarringToby Stephens
Emily Woof
Ben Kingsley
Frances Barber
Philip Davis
CinematographyJohn DeBorman
Edited bySean Barton
Music bySimon Boswell
Production
companies
Distributed byEntertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (International)
Release date
  • 19 September 1997 (1997-09-19)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Budget$1 million
Box office$4.6 million

Photographing Fairies is a 1997 British fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyi's 1992 novel Photographing Fairies. The film explores some of the themes of folklore, such as possession, paganism, animism, hallucinogens, parapsychology and fairies. It was inspired by the Cottingley Fairies hoax, and was released in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1997.