StoryFilm.
For someone who lives in the world of communication I find it kind of funny my family has been very uncommunicative about things.
I don’t mean there are skeletons in the cupboard, just some amazing and interesting stories I had never heard until recently that place members of my family at some of the 20th Century’s biggest events … like the sinking of the Titanic… and liberating Pegasus Bridge on D-Day… those kind of things. But the stories have been, well - if not exactly hidden then kept in a tin box along with scraps of newspaper cuttings and yellowing photographs.
Alfred Eddon was a ship steward with the White Star Line company sailing out of Liverpool. He was just 25 when found himself onboard the Carpathia - the ship that went to the rescue of the Titanic in April 1912. Alf married my Great Aunty Peg, and although I never met him - he died before I was born - I do remember a pale photograph in a frame, pale eyes staring out. ‘Our Alf’, Peggy would say. The things those eyes must have seen.
Wilf Forgham was a tall, handle-bar moustached uncle. The kind of uncle that’d squeeze a £10 note in your hand as he shook it and said his farewells. He never mentioned he was one of the troops at Pegasus Bridge. I’m not sure many people knew. But his photograph hangs in a cafe there, to this day. There he is, far right, next to the girl on the motobike, rifle in hand.
StoryFilm is an idea I’ve had to make films to help people tell their stories, and the stories of their relatives, friends and family. To capture memories in a film. They can be keepsakes, places, moments, whatever: all crafted into short documentary films, to share, and to cherish.
If you have a memory, a story, a history you want to capture: StoryFilm is here to help.