Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
October 21, 2016Release Date
Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)
October 21, 2016Release Date




Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Michael Sheen

Jonathan Pryce

Siân Phillips

Eve Myles

Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Actress

Iwan Rheon

Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Robert Pugh

Matthew Gravelle

Karl Johnson

Lisa Palfrey

Kimberley Nixon

Christopher Benning
Tomos Davies

Pip Broughton
Director

Bethan Jones
Executive Producer

Laurence Love Greed
Original Music Composer

Steve Lawes
Director of Photography

Owen Sheers
Writer

Jenna Robbins
Producer

David Charap
Editor

Sharon Morgan

Dafydd Elliot Thomas

Amy Morgan

Alex Harries
Details.
Release DateOctober 21, 2016
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Last updated:
Wiki.
The Green Hollow (or Aberfan: The Green Hollow) is a "film-poem", which was broadcast by the BBC on 21 October 2016 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster of 1966. Owen Sheers wrote the script of the screenplay using the words of survivors of the disaster whom he interviewed over a period.
Sheers described The Green Hollow as “a film poem in the voice of Aberfan, both then and now”. The work falls into three sections: “Children”, “Rescuers” and “Survivors”. Actors who participated in the film, reading in the authentic voices of those who witnessed the disaster, included Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Siân Phillips, Eve Myles, Robert Pugh and Iwan Rheon, and the film was directed by Pip Broughton. Sheers said that he had at first been doubtful about the project because he did not want to exploit the grief of the local community. He later concluded that "I realized that this small community had become defined by the disaster and I wanted to show what the place was like before that."
The poem was published in book form by Faber & Faber in 2018. Sheers said that the incremental sense of menace in the book was "a feeling that’s got stronger with its eventual publication ... because of the physical entity of the book".
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