Nina Pope is currently working with co-director Karen Guthrie on their third documentary feature film which they are shooting during 2010 in the Essex coastal town of Jaywick, with planned release in spring 2011.

"We got to know Jaywick through our project Jaywick Escapes (link) – which was a creative strategy for Essex County Council on how to improve the design and use of green space locally. We found the town really intriguing, and feel that both the place and the people have something unique to say"

Once the favourite holiday destination for London's Eastenders, with its social club "A Circle of Happiness", Jaywick in Essex is now 'rated' the third most deprived place in the UK. Locally notorious for high levels of crime, unemployment, dependency and anti-social behaviour, outside of the town you rarely hear mention of its

beautiful beach or that many of the locals love their homes.

Jaywick is also the only place on the South coast where a detached home with sea view can be bought for just £50,000. The town started as a collection of holiday homes and is now historically significant as the UK's last inhabited 'plotland', the term for the once-common DIY 'off-grid' settlements of the south east that are now buried under planned modern towns like Basildon. Regardless of its external reputation and the explicit flood warnings now rising due to climate change, many Jaywick residents adore the place – the film will try to find out why.

The documentary will be a sensitive observational portrait using archive footage of the town's heyday,

atmospherically contrasted with the stories of some of the town's loyal inhabitants.