May 5 2021, 12:06 pm | BY Ricki Green | 2 Comments
Days after being nominated for a BAFTA for the film, director Stefan Hunt tells LBB’s Natasha Patel about creating a film that honours the elderly via the expression of dance.
Earlier this week the BAFTA nominations were announced. Among those listed for Short Form Programme is Stefan Hunt’s
They Saw The Sun First. The eight-minute short is a refreshingly honest take on what growing old means to a selection of New York’s elderly. The inception of the film came from an old African proverb: “Old people’s speech is not to be dishonoured – after all, they saw the sun first.” To show off the beauty of the film, Stefan decided to use dance as the main form of expressing the cast’s emotions, coupled with the wonderful music of FKJ’s Ylang Ylang.