UK YouTube Breakout ‘A Memory Owed’, With James Bolam & Rumi Sutton, Moves Into Feature Development
The YouTube short *A Memory Owed*, about a Second World War veteran visiting an RAF museum, is moving into feature development after attracting a substantial audience. Its makers say the longer film will explore Bomber Command’s wartime operations and their legacy, extending the short’s focus on remembrance and the people affected by the war.
Written and directed by Martin Hemingway-Moseley, the short stars James Bolam and Rumi Sutton and has passed 600,000 YouTube views, with a 99% approval rating. Stephen Fry has praised it, and the team is preparing a treatment and approaching potential partners; it has received an unsolicited development donation and interest from at least one distributor. The actors’ representatives have not held formal talks, though both performers are understood to support the feature idea.
- A popular RAF-themed short is being developed as a feature.
- It has passed 600,000 YouTube views with 99% approval.
- The feature aims to explore Bomber Command’s legacy.
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Bomber Command was the RAF force that carried out bombing raids over German-occupied Europe and Germany during the Second World War. Its operations caused extensive destruction and civilian deaths, and remain a subject of debate about their military purpose and human cost.
The short film centres on a veteran visiting an RAF museum, using remembrance to connect wartime events with the people who lived through them and their descendants. James Bolam and Rumi Sutton star, while Martin Hemingway-Moseley wrote and directed the film.