AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY OREL SIMON

FORMATS: 90 mn - HD

 

Starring RUTH FLOWERS & Celebrities

 

Written by ANGE RAYNAUD & OREL SIMON

 

Producer OREL SIMON

Produced by SPOA FILMS

 

For a 69-year-old woman, Ruth Flowers certainly knows how to party. In the past week, the British DJ, also known as Mamy Rock, has taken no less than six flights, and DJ’d almost every night. She hasn’t had a weekend off in nearly two months.

 

Flowers, originally from Bristol, first developed an interest in becoming a disc jockey in 2005. It was her grandson's birthday, and rather than simply popping round to wish him happy returns over a cup of tea, Flowers decided to join him at a London nightclub. After fighting her way past a rather incredulous bouncer - “This fellow outside the door said ‘You don’t want to go in there, madam’ and I told him, ‘Yes I jolly well do, it’s my grandson’s birthday!’” - she fell in love with what she saw.

 

“It was frightfully noisy of course, and there were all these lights flashing,” Flowers remembers, “but what I realised was that these young people were just having so much fun. So I said to my grandson, ‘You know what darling, I could arrange things like this, for the local kids.' And he said he thought that would be very cool.”

 

Soon after, Flowers met Orel Simon, a young French producer, who suggested to her the idea of becoming an elderly DJ. “To be honest, I just thought that was the craziest thing I’d ever heard. But what did I have to lose?”