![]() ![]() There's a lot of local involvement in the project - Dylan Fowler and Gill Stevens, from Abergavenny, are writing the music, and will be performing live at the Castle. Renu Brindle from Bristol plays the adult Sita. Seiriol Tomos also appears in the film, along with Isha Gurung (aged 8, from Mount Street School in Brecon) who plays young Sita, the half-Welsh, half-Indian heroine of the film. The evening starts at 7pm and there will also be storytelling from Seiriol Tomos and Wayland Boulanger. So far, she's made a fifteen minute pilot film, which will be shown at Hay Castle on Wednesday 9th September. ![]() ![]() She isn't only a writer - though I can recommend On The Trail of the Women Warriors and Becoming the Enchanter - she is also a film-maker (she begins Becoming the Enchanter with a scene where she's trying to film in Liverpool, and has to find a way to deal with some cheeky kids).īecoming the Enchanter is a book steeped in the mythology of the Mabinogion, the collection of Welsh myths and legends which are pretty much all that survive of pre-Christian religion in Britain, and she's returned to these myths to write and direct a film called The Dancing Floor. Some years ago, I attended a very helpful writing course taught by Lyn Webster Wilde. Local Kickstarter Project Needs Support. ![]()
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