A special evening of film is to be held at the Princess Hall, Burnham-on-Sea on Saturday 16th April 2011 from 7.30pm to mark the release of a new short film inspired by the former Braithwaite Paddling and Boating Pool. “For All Our Tomorrows” stars two local students, budding actors Alec Cochran and Jake Morgan and marks their on-screen debut. In the short drama their characters, whose only experience of war is through video games, suddenly find themselves face-to-face with the reality of conflict. The production was given special permission to use archive footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum collection. The volunteer cast and crew created the short film as part of ‘Capture Somerset’, an initiative by local media charity Somerset Film and Windrose Media Trust to find archive material and to train community chroniclers to document the changing world around us and put existing material into context. A short documentary of East Brent’s Harvest Home by Liz Brown, made as part of the same initiative, will also be shown. Local archive material of Burnham-on-Sea from the Norman Gobey collection including “Our Civilian Army”, a recruitment film made for the Home Guard and recently found footage of the town’s efforts to raise money for the Spitfire Fund during World War Two, also form part of the programme whilst the future of local filmmaking is highlighted by the inclusion of award-winning “Can You Teach a Worm to Tango’ and ‘The Apothecary’. The films scooped Best Animation and Best Drama respectively at the First Light Media Awards in London last month. Local media charity Somerset Film and Bridgwater YMCA supported the productions, which were made by young people from Somerset. Entry to the evening costs £3 and the proceeds will go to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, whilst refreshments will be on sale from Churchfield School PTFA. Seats can be reserved by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or calling Deb Richardson on 07884 351514.
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