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.