Hear Me Now
Short Documentary (2017)
Director’s Statement
“Winner of the Best Factual Award at both the Scottish and UK RTS Student Television Awards 2018, Hear Me Now is the dissertation documentary I directed whilst at Stirling University.
The story was initiated from my friend Ann's personal story and book about her and other childrens’ experiences in a sanatorium in Wales whilst suffering from Tuberculosis.”
Film Description
Set in idyllic rural Wales, the gothic Craig-Y-Nos Castle is a building with a dark secret past.
From the 1920s until the late 1950s, Craig-Y-Nos was a sanatorium for Welsh children suffering from tuberculosis. Many of these children spent years in the castle, separated from family and friends, and subjected to regimes that seem barbaric today.
In this powerful and moving documentary, some of the TB patients return to Craig-Y-Nos and relive the memories of their childhood.