The film was also available in screenings through the 'Ourscreen' platform in UK, where an individual can hope to gather sufficient seats for a Cinema screening.

and European premier at the September 2016 Festival international du film sur le handicap (FIHH). My Feral Heart made its UK premier at the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival.

Music was composed by Barrington Pheloung. At least two notable established actresses play roles: Eileen Pollock as Luke's mother Joan for a few scenes at the start of the film and Suzanna Hamilton does a single scene as Pete's mother. The complete cast runs into several dozen, including a group of disabled children who play the residents of the care home. The fourth main character is contortionist Pixie Le Knot who as an anonymous girl personifies a trapped feral fox. Will Rastall is Pete, doing community service near Blossom House who befriends Luke and assists him to express his abilities. Shana Swash plays Eve, a caregiver at the Blossom House residential home who slowly builds a relationship with Luke. The film contains three other major characters. On an episode of ' Loose Women' on 23 November 2017 Brandon's father Mike said how after the birth he had been told Steven 'would 'not be able to do much', 'not be able to amount to anything', 'possibly not talk'. A member of the Mushroom Theatre Company it was 33-year old Brandon from Mersea debutant film role and resulted in the award of best actor at the 2017 National Film Awards UK. Steven Brandon acts the role of Luke, a young man with Down syndrome who turns from being an independent caregiver to his mother to being a dependent in the structured regime of a residential care home for special-needs people.

The film goes on to develops Luke's relationship with a feral animal personified as a girl, bringing the four main characters together at the conclusion of the film. The film explores the development of relationships between Luke Eve, a carer at the home and Pete, a hunt saboteur doing community service. When she dies social services remove Luke to Blossom House, a care home, where Luke struggles to adapt to the restrictive environment. In a reversal of the generally expected roles it is Luke, who has Down syndrome, that is the careperson for his elderly mother.