---
title: 'Photographing Fairies (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Nick Willing'
released: '1997-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/photographing-fairies-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119893/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Photographing Fairies (1997)

1997 · 106 min · Drama, Fantasy · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Nick Willing](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-willing)
- **Screenplay:** [Nick Willing](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-willing)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Simon Boswell](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-boswell)
- **Director of Photography:** [John de Borman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-de-borman)
- **Editor:** [Sean Barton](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-barton)

## Cast

- [Rachel Shelley](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-shelley)
- [Emily Woof](https://cinepixo.com/people/emily-woof)
- [Toby Stephens](https://cinepixo.com/people/toby-stephens)
- [Ben Kingsley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-kingsley)
- [Phil Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-davis)
- [Edward Hardwicke](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-hardwicke)
- [Frances Barber](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-barber)

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