EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
Ashley Gething’s film commemorates the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest natural disasters in history - the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Told through the stories of seven individuals in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka, the film documents the events of that terrible day and follows the fortunes of these survivors. Charting the pain and loss they suffered, we also see the remarkable ways in which they’ve rebuilt their lives, in a film that is ultimately a testament to love and human resilience.
POST FILM DISCUSSION
Chair: Humphrey Hawksley, long-serving BBC Foreign Correspondent who worked principally in East Asia and covered the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.
Director: Ashley Gething is an award-winning filmmaker. Ashley directed Ewan McGregor in a Spitfire cockpit for The Battle of Britain, and collaborated with the Australian film director Baz Luhrmann for My Shakespeare – a documentary reworking of Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet. Ashley filmed with Princes William and Harry for Diana: Our Mother. In 2023 Ashley filmed King Charles III during the Coronation and the first year of his reign.
Luke Simon is director of the charity School in a Bag, which distributes school supplies to disadvantaged children around the world. He founded the charity in memory of his brother Piers who lost his life in the Boxing Day Tsunami.
Dr Mari Mulyani, environmental scientist at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University, worked with Humphrey Hawksley covering the Boxing Day Tsunami in one of the worst hit areas of Aceh in Indonesia.
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