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Professor Phil Redmond CBE, creator of Brookside, Grange Hill and Hollyoaks and Chair of the National Museums, Liverpool, has had some very high praise for our latest young people's film From These Stones.
"The Churches Conservation Trust took a bold step when deciding how to interpret the extraordinary history of one of their 'retired' churches - St Lawrence in Evesham. Rather than present the story of the church using a brochure or a new information panel, they chose instead to work with The Rural Media Company and allowed them to re-interpret this ancient space with a group of young people from the town.
The result is a very dramatic short film - From These Stones. Creating this film enabled the young people to not only learn about their own heritage and community but to also powerfully express their own deepest feelings and concerns about the world around them.
Once again The Rural Media Company has demonstrated their extraordinary skill in locating great filmmaking within a social and educational context and given young people the creative opportunity to shape, perform in and produce a remarkable piece of work.”
St Lawrence’s Church in Evesham is cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity protecting historic churches at risk and it inspired the making of the film From These Stones.
Supported by the Trust, the young people researched the history and heritage of the church and uncovered its turbulent and dramatic past, then working with RMC they then learnt digital filmmaking skills and devised the storyline that would eventually form the basis of the screenplay for From These Stones.
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Praise for From these Stones 
