Sarah’s War

Whilst not strictly a club film, it’s included here because of the contributions and support from several SBMM members. 

 It was club member Brian O’Connell (image left) who was the driving force behind this epic of a film. Brian originally wrote it as a stage play that was performed in locations around Guildford in 2015 and subsequently embarked upon the task of making it into a full-length feature film.

Using his own funding, Brian wrote, produced, directed and edited the film using professional actors and a young professional cinematographer.

Occasionally he involved a professional sound recordist (when he could get one) otherwise it was nearly all SBMM crew. 

The fabulous graphics and posters that were used to promote the film were produced by Peter Frost.

 Although Philip Morley (image below) joined the project at a later stage he was vital to its completion. During the last five long full day shoots, he was nearly always the first to arrive and the last to leave, and on one day the wrap occurred at 2.00 a.m. in the morning!

As Brian says;  ‘I would like to emphasise the huge part that Peter and Philip played in the production because without them it would not have happened.’

 Gordon Sutton also played a key role for both sound and set, as did Alan Brown, Dick Grainger and Neil Cryer.