Sky Arts is to show a double-bill from Foxtrot Films as part of its Remembrance Sunday evening programming.
Foxtrot Films is the indie led by BAFTA award winning Writer/Director/Producer Margy Kinmonth and Emmy Award winning Producer/Executive Producer Maureen Murray.
Kinmonth’s multi-award-winning Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War will receive its UK broadcast premiere on Sky Arts at 8pm on Sunday 10th November immediately followed by War Art With Eddie Redmayne. Both films were made in co-operation with Imperial War Museums.
The films form the first two parts of Kinmonth’s “War Art Trilogy” of films examining War and Art. The last in the trilogy is Foxtrot’s latest Margy Kinmonth feature documentary War Paint – Women at War, which will be released in cinemas as a Sky Original in 2025.
Starring Freddie Fox, Tamsin Greig, Jeremy Irons and Harriet Walter, Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War is the first major feature film to be made about the much loved but hugely underestimated artist Eric Ravilious, who was killed in a plane crash over Iceland in 1942 – the first British War Artist to die in World War 2.
Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Alan Bennett and Robert Macfarlane contribute to a life as compelling and enigmatIc as his art, set against the dramatIc wartIme locatIons that inspired him. This true story is told in Ravilious’s own words drawn from a treasure trove of private correspondence and previously unseen family archive.
In Margy Kinmonth’s film, War Art With Eddie Redmayne, Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne takes an emotional journey, visiting artists’ studios, museums and travelling to battlefield locations to shine a powerful light into the abyss of warfare, where war artists have left their unique legacy. Including the work of Paul Nash, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, John Singer Sargent – and Adolf Hitler. With contributions from artists George Butler, Peter Howson, Graeme Lothian and Julia Midgley.
Marty Kinmouth, Writer/Director/Producer, Foxtrot Films Ltd says: “In my trilogy of films on global conflict, I visit front lines, cinematically, through the eyes of artists past and present, asking how we can ever understand the truth of war and its consequences? In my latest film War Paint – Women at War, I break taboos, controversially experiencing conflict through the long overlooked female gaze. The beauty of art reminds us all of our humanity.”
Maureen Murray, Producer/Executive Producer, Foxtrot Films Ltd says: “Foxtrot Films is delighted that Sky is bringing the first two films of Margy Kinmonth’s exceptional War Art Trilogy to the Sky Arts audience on Remembrance Sunday, a most poignant and fitting date. We now look forward to working with Sky again on the roll out for War Paint – Women at War during 2025.
Racoon provided post for War Paint – Women at War with Directors Cut providing post on the two other films.
Staff Reporter
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