Posts Tagged ‘charity’

Last week I had the hon­our to pre­view the film shorts pro­duced by Light­house in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the BBC Film Net­work. I don’t say hon­our lightly, despite my PR ten­den­cies. Each of the four shorts that were selected were each truly inspiring:

• Turn­ing: The tale of Robert who receives three beau­ti­ful bro­ken old birds in his mother’s sit­ting room on his 6th birth­day. ’ A mem­ory of an after­noon with tea and cake, lace pink slips and a tale of an emperor with no skin. ’ Visu­ally stun­ning, cre­ative and charm­ingly eccen­tric, I rather liked this story of the world through the eyes of an imag­i­na­tive small boy. (Dir: Karni & Saul)
• Wish 143: Fif­teen year old David only has months to live so is offered a wish from the Dream­scape Char­ity. He doesn’t want to meet a foot­baller or go to Dis­ney­land; what David wants is to lose his vir­gin­ity.  Out­stand­ing per­for­mances by lead Samual Hol­land and Jim Carter make this a truly mov­ing short that feels much longer, in a good way! Poignant and funny and heart­break­ing and joy­ous. I loved this film. (Dir: Ian Barnes)
• Munro: A dis­as­trous father & son camp­ing trip in the Scot­tish High­lands spi­rals as hid­den secrets start to sur­face. Stun­ning land­scapes and an out­stand­ing final line makes this a rugged gem. (Dir: Michael Keillor)
• Con­ver­sa­tion Piece: Star­ring Celia Imrie and John Hen­shaw this delight­fully quirky 5 minute piece is set to the music of jazz cor­netist Rex Stew­art as Jean tries to dis­cover how a cher­ished vase gets a chip in it. (Dir: Joe Tunmer)

With­out turn­ing into some gush­ing luvee, we all know I have it in me, I was truly taken aback by the level of tal­ent on dis­play. I got to be there as a trustee of Light­house but ulti­mately I thor­oughly enjoyed the expe­ri­ence as a viewer.

The films will be shown at var­i­ous fes­ti­vals and will go on to the BBC Film Net­work site so keep an eye out.