Film-maker Kevin Short, of K4K Films, is bringing his new movie Bonnie & Clive to the Chichester International Film Festival at the Chichester Cinema at New Park on August 20 at 8.15pm.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.
00:05Lovely to speak to Kevin Shorter-Bognor, who's putting forward a film for the
00:09Chichester International Film Festival coming up in August. Now this film is Bonnie and Clive,
00:14not Clyde, but Clive. Now, you conceived the film during lockdown and you made it as soon
00:20as you could after lockdown. What's the film all about? Well, Bonnie and Clive, the title of course
00:27is a small homage to Bonnie and Clyde, and that's because of the theme of the film, which is about
00:35two desperados, in a way, who are lonely and searching for love, who come together
00:43in a critical moment. And the critical moment in this case is the weekend before the first
00:51national lockdown that we had over here. And I wrote it during the lockdown with the idea of
01:00when it was all over, when the lockdowns were over, people could celebrate the South and the
01:07West country, because I've always been in love with the West country. I've been in love with
01:11Devon and Somerset and Cornwall especially. And I wanted to somehow celebrate that and for people
01:20to go and visit them again after the COVID lockdowns. So I wrote this with the idea of
01:28going on a 300 mile road trip along one of the longest routes in Britain, actually, which is
01:35the A30, which is now the A30, you've gone to the A30, 303 and back to the A30, but it is
01:42a straight route. And then to celebrate the iconic landmarks along the way. So apart from
01:50it being a story of these two, three people, actually, who come together before the national
01:58lockdown to kind of celebrate freedom, you know, before they're actually, you know, locked up again.
02:05And I've lost my...
02:10No, and you made it according to a very strict timetable, which you missed, didn't you?
02:14Yeah, we did. Just after the lockdown finished, we went on a 300 mile recce,
02:20my partner and I, K4K Films, Catherine, and we did the route, you know, we did it in two days,
02:28and mapped out all the filming places and the landmarks we wanted to visit,
02:33because we visit Stonehenge, we visit the Eden Project, we visit some very lesser known
02:42landmarks, like the Merry Maiden stones in Cornwall, and Lanyon Voight, which is another
02:48stone, and of course, at the end in Lamb's End. And then once done that...
02:55And you've shown it in a number of festivals so far, showing it in Chichester, and the idea is
02:59presumably to get it out there, isn't it? It is, and it's won an amazing amount of awards. We've
03:05won probably 10 or 12 awards up to now. We've won Best Film, Best Original Score. There are
03:11nine original songs in it, because one of the protagonists is a busker who plays ukulele,
03:16so there are lots of ukulele-based songs. If you like ukulele and fun songs, that's for you as well.
03:25Well, good to hear that it's coming to Chichester. Good to speak to you, Kevin, thank you.
03:29Nice to see you.