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This a short animated film adapted from an original story written by Gerald Griffin in 1827 |
This story parallels Romeo and Juliet in that there are two families destined to be kept apart by circumstances. In this case religious and social. The young couple are murdered by a local villain. Nothing is excluded from the original story but an additional twist was written into the script to add to the intrigue. Gerald Griffin was born in Limerick in 1802 and died in 1840. "The Hand and The Word" was written fourteen years before "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe who was deemed to be the father of the detective story. The film was funded by Baltic and was the brainchild of Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio, who were part of the direction team together with one of our own members Steve Davies. (Busy man Steve as he is also in the comedy!) The script was written by members Andrew and Lorraine Heard and Julian and Marie Brown, with minor modifications from a steering committee who guided the process from the point of committing to the project to the start of filming. With the number of members required Andrew Heared played the part of Black Ned the villain. We do not normally require a voice coach but in this case Ray Callaghan was invaluable. Julian Brown found outside locations such as Robin Hoods Bay. Bill Clark and Terry Collier who were also in the cast were involved in set building. When filming at the theatre was completed Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio went away and began the work of animating, adding music and sound track, and generally doing all the hard work putting the finishing touches to a most interesting and exciting film.
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