WATCH: Trailer released for Black Country festive movie anthology
The trailer for a festive movie anthology filmed in the Black Country and featuring ‘Allo ‘Allo! star Arthur Bostrom has been released.
Advent, which will be released in November 2021, is comprised of three different Christmas stories.
It is being produced by Walsall College technician Kaush Patel of Pat The Bull Films, in association with lecturer Dave Hastings of Lightbeam Productions.
See the trailer here:
The opening segment story Ho-Ho-Hostage features Bostrom, who is best known for his role as Officer Crabtree from Allo’ Allo’, as the town mayor merrily helping to start the countdown to the annual Christmas tree light switch-on.
It is a festive comedy that follows Karen and David along with their son Dylan.
After visiting the local soup kitchen, they suddenly find themselves accidentally stumbling upon a robbery by the world’s not-so-clever burglars.
While the family and their friends are held hostage, they suddenly find help in the form of Christmas’ original visitor, a man in a red suit and hat, who keeps saying Ho-Ho-Ho.
Arthur said he “loved the sound” of the film, which he described as uplifting, and said the mayor was a jolly man with “a good heart”. Continuing with the spirit of the season, Kaushy Patel presents the second segment, Three Ghosts, chronicling the Wilkinson family, whose continual fighting and arguing tips the balance on Christmas Eve. However, this continual emotional struggle has finally taken its toll on all of them both mentally and physically. Fearing that all hope is lost, they decide to proceed with a devastating course of action.
Their only hope? Three Christmas ghosts, who are determined to show each of them how their consequences would have emotional repercussions and that their presence in the world is a blessing and not a hindrance, as they believe. Mr Hastings’s third segment, Dominik, tells the true story of a quiet and gentle stranger, who begins to appear at Midnight Mass every Christmas Eve at a local nearby church.
As Susan Wormbourne and her husband, Colin, the vicar, attempt to find out who the young man is, they discover a heart-breaking and tragic past, one that finds him now lost in a country he does not originally come from.
Filming first began at the start of the year but the project had to be put on hold due to Covid-19.
“Covid stopped us from filming the final segments of the film this year, so it will now be released in November 2021, and which is why we brought the trailer forward so that we have something for audiences to see this Christmas,” said Dave.
To find out more about the project see www.facebook.com/AdventMovie
