About
A metal detectorist’s quest through the Shropshire Marches leads us to a spectacular gold masterpiece, and the leader who sacrifices it for the sake of her child. A glorious animated adventure, inspired by the discovery of the Shropshire sun pendant.
The film was also supported by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
The Team
Director Samantha Moore
Producer Abigail Addison
Music Elizabeth Purnell
Animators Samantha Moore and Rosa Beiroa
Treasure exhibited in the British Museum Spotlight Loan exhibition ‘Gathering Light: A Bronze Age Golden Sun’ which reached an audience of 128,409 people across:
- Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK, 10 September – 12 December 2021
- Royal Cornwall Museum, UK, 6 August – 5 November 2022
- The Collection, Lincoln, 11 November 2022 – 20 February 2023
- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, 25 February – 3 June 2023
- Museum nan Eilean, Stornoway, 13 June – 16 September 2023
Festivals
- Norwich Film Festival
- London International Animation Festival
- 15th British Shorts Film Festival
- Esoteric International Film Festival
- Balkan Can Kino
- Borderlines Film Festival
- Athens Animafest
- On the Pulse Festival (CineMagic)
- Cardiff Animation Festival
- Flatpack Festival
- Animafest Zagreb
- Braziers International Film Festival
- Chaniartoon 2022 at International Comic and Animation Festival
- Festival of Looking
- Awards
Winner of Best Animated Film and nominated for Best Short Film and Best Music, Midlands Movies Awards 2022, UK, 11 June 2022
Winner of Best Animation at the Women Over 50 Film Festival, UK, 10-25 September 2022
Winner of the Cultura Animata Award at the Rovereto Archeologia Memorie (world heritage) RAM Film Festival 2022, Italy, 28 September – 2 October 2022
