A Lyrical Cinematic docudrama exploration
of Nick Drake’s enduring legacy
Currently in pre-production and shooting in August 2026, Five Leaves Left is a lyrical exploration of Nick Drake’s enduring legacy, weaving together testimony from multi generational artists and an autobiographical account of a 1997 road trip taken by two lovers to Tanworth-in-Arden to visit Nick Drake’s grave. The film creates a reflective narrative that bridges personal memory with musical heritage.
In the summer of 1997, two 19 year old, working-class lovers set out from the Birmingham suburbs in a classic car. Their destination: the grave of Nick Drake, whose music has become a shared language between them and a comfort for their unacknowledged pain.
This journey, captured in memory and reimagined on screen, becomes a meditation on youth, longing, and the quiet power of music to shape identity and connection, where deeply hidden vulnerabilities can be shared.
Interwoven with this personal narrative are intimate audio interviews with artists from different generations who reflect on how Drake’s music shaped their lives and creative paths. Their insights echo and deepen the emotional terrain of the road trip, creating a layered portrait of influence, absence, and resonance.
Meet the Five Leaves Left team
Producer/ Director
Alex Crowton
Alex is a director, producer and cinematographer, known for cinematic
features This Is Sparklehorse (2022),
The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse (2016) and Lost Legends: Jack Nitzsche (2009). Alex is passionate about cinematic independent films for the big screen.
Co-Producer
Bobby Dass
Bobby is an experienced filmmaker and master editor, Bobby is known as the writer/ director of Tourette's Haiku and as the co-producer/director of This Is Sparklehorse (2022)
Cinematographer
Matt Jeffrey
Matt Jeffrey is an experienced cinematographer across all aspects of fiction and documentary film, he is currently working on the feature documentary Tipping Point which is set for release in Autumn 2026.
Co-Producer
Angela-Faye Martin
Angela-Faye Martin, co-producer lives and earns a living in the western North Carolina mountains. When she is not leading nature tours, she writes, music and film narratives. Angela wrote the narrative for This is Sparklehorse (2022) and continues to research, develop and write documentary narratives in her capacity as a producer.
Production Designer
Dan Mucklow
Dan has spent over 20 years working as an Art Director on a wide variety of Film & Tv projects across the Uk that include: Ipcress files (2022) War of the Worlds (2019)The city & the city (2018)Peaky Blinders (2013).
Composer
James Coulthard
A natural explorer of sound, harmony and musical colors, he has dedicated well over a decade to his composition for film and television.
Composer
Jake Hiorns
Multi-media art oddball, whose approach to sound lies in the fusion of orchestral arrangements, electronic blips and bloops, and the hiss and crackle of imperfect analogue.
Screenwriter
Di Humphries
Di Humphries is a screenwriter who has developed films for Bo-Ho Films,including, Five Leaves Left. She has created and developed television drama series scripts and is also an experienced theatre maker who has devised and toured several productions around the UK.
'THIS IS SPARKLEHORSE' (2022)
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