In The Shadow of War
Short film Completed 2014
Director
Georgia and Sophia Scott
Doc Society helped with
Impact
Runtime: 89 minutes
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What happens when the guns fall silent? Through the lives of four young people in Bosnia Herzegovina, IN THE SHADOW OF WAR tells the hidden story of a generation traumatised by a conflict fought by their parents but for which they continue to pay the price.
Long synopsis:
IN THE SHADOW OF WAR will take you on a cinematic journey through the hopes, dreams and fears of a new generation who find themselves living with the ongoing effects of a war that ended before most of them were even born. The film captures the energetic spirit of Bosnia and Herzegovina but also bears witness to the legacy of a brutal conflict.
The film tells four very different stories of trauma, survival and, on occasion, triumph over adversity. Ante, Ilija, Magdalena and Elvis are inspirational young people whose powerful and emotional lives illustrate the continuing effects of war. These four teenagers, like thousands of other children born at the end of the war in Bosnia, have grown up in orphanages or live with parents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The film follows them grappling with being alone, coming to terms with how they were conceived or their parents role in the war, attempting to rebuild broken relationships and healing mental and physical scars.
We see the reunion of Ante and his war criminal father in a maximum security prison in northern Sweden. We follow Magdalena as she finds the strength to leave her abusive father. We witness an encounter between Ilija and his mother, who 20 years ago abandoned him. We feel the turmoil of Elvis as he struggles to deal with the death of both his parents and now finds himself abandoned by the state.
Outreach Work Supported
Early partnership work and test screenings with the target audience.
Crew
Georgia and Sophia Scott
Director
After spending a year at the European Film College in Denmark, Sophia Scott went on to graduate from the Newport Film School, University of Wales with a BA in Documentary Film and Television. Sophia then spent 6 years living in Nairobi and worked extensively across the continent as a self-shooting director and field producer on documentaries for the UN, PBS, and the BBC amongst others.
After graduating from the University of the Arts London, Georgia Scott went on to make her first documentary film, Karibuni Lamu, with Sophia in Kenya. The film explored the threats facing the unique Swahili culture on Lamu Island, just off the Kenya/Somali coastline.
Georgia and Sophia are sisters and work as a team - In the Shadow of War is their first feature length documentary.
About the company:
Georgia and Sophia Scott set up GroundTruth Productions in 2012 focusing on making documentaries that bring the grand scale and richness of the cinema to the telling of individual human stories. Believing in the power of the moving image and using documentary film as an educational tool, Sophia and Georgia aim to capture socially relevant stories bringing them to viewers world wide.
