An independent movie made by a Kingsbridge-based filmmaker received its UK premiere at the weekend.
Shalborne, a period drama set in Edwardian England and filmed mostly in Devon, was screened at a packed Dartington Barn Cinema on Saturday, October 26.
Shalborne, a period drama set in Edwardian England and filmed mostly in Devon, was screened at a packed Dartington Barn Cinema on Saturday, October 26.
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00:00Yeah, I had no idea what I was going in for, and I had tried to write a short, but it's
00:20actually really difficult to write a short because you have to have that arc of characters
00:25in the story and the plot line, which is really difficult to achieve in 15 minutes. So I just
00:31thought, I'll write the story and then see how it goes from there, and that's literally
00:37what happened. And I wanted to write a story about women, and I kind of felt that period
00:45is so interesting because there isn't yet the emancipation of women, and it's just,
00:50they're so sort of, they're so powerless. And that is, there are so many people in the world
00:59who are powerless, not just women, so it felt like it would be a strong metaphor for anyone who was
01:06just trying to sort of take on the establishment, or the powers that be, or anyone stronger than
01:13themselves to kind of fulfil their destiny or fulfil who they were.