Watch ‘Tell Them of Us’ on Vimeo.

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We are delighted to announce that you can now watch our WW1 film ‘Tell Them of Us’ on Vimeo. It costs as little as £1.00 to view. Click here to go to Vimeo.

Waiting – 1917 (c) Nick Loven

 

Violet’s Story, VAD Nurse, WWI

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We also hope to make a mini-documentary on Horncastle’s Red Cross Hospital during WWI based largely on Nurse Violet Pearson’s album of mementoes (below) and reports from the Horncastle News: here is the link to our crowdfunding campaign: Violet’s Story.

Violet Crowder’s album on display at the Centenary Stitches exhibition.

Violet Pearson (Tiffany Haynes) talking to Grace Crowder (Victoria Rigby).

This will be a companion documentary to the main drama-doc on William Crowder.

William Crowder’s WWI Story

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Our 2014 WWI film “Tell Them of Us”, is the true story of one Lincolnshire family, made to commemorate the outbreak of WWI.

One story remained untold however; what happened to William Crowder at the front which resulted in him receiving the Distinguished Service Order. The DSO was awarded to an officer for acts of gallantry under attack; so what exactly happened to William? Fortunately we have an account and it is one of the most arresting and visually compelling of any narrative I have read.

We plan to make a documentary of William’s story and hope to raise enough money to dramatise the events that resulted in him receiving the DSO. Recreating these events will be extraordinary, but costly. So we will be launching a new Kickstarter fundraiser soon and we are looking into other fundraising options as well. The more we can raise the more we can do!

William Crowder played by Adam Fox. Graphic design Judith Brodnicki.

Immersion Cinema

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Immersion cinema is where the audience’s appreciation of a story is heightened by, for example, being in the location where the events played out. Now there is a chance to see Tell Them of Us in one of the locations where the events depicted happened and where we filmed too.The film is about the Crowder family during World War One and is told from the home front. A close friend of the Crowder family, Violet Pearson, worked as a VAD nurse at the Horncastle Red Cross Hospital and, although the film only briefly touches on her work, the fact that the audience will be viewing the film sitting in the ward that so many injured soldiers were nursed, will be a powerful one.

The Charity Premiere of the film will be introduced by the Director, Nick Loven, and Robert Holland, grandson and great nephew of Grace, William and Robert Crowder. It will be held in Stanhope Hall, Horncastle, the former Red Cross Hospital. Funds will go to the restoration of St Margaret’s Church, Thimbleby, which contains the marble memorial to Robert Crowder and the other fallen from the village during the 1914-18 war.