Bayview Entertainment will be handling the domestic DVD distribution of the English animated film import from the directing team of Stephen Cookson and David Reynold. Titled Louisa: An Amazing Adventure, it will be available on June 29.
This animated thriller is based on actual events that unfolded on the night of January 12, 1899 as the 1,900-ton Forrest Hall, a four-masted cargo ship out of Liverpool, floundered in the Bristol Channel in heavy seas.
The “Louisa” of our story is actually a 34-foot, self-righting life-boat, equipped with a ten-foot sliding steel keel and stations for ten oarsmen. The life-boat was stationed at Lynmouth, which was on the other side of the peninsula from where the Forrest Hall was taking on water.
The first thing was to haul the beast 13-miles on country roads, through pastures, knocking down fences and walls to get the Louisa to the shore. With the crew now exhausted from the ordeal, they now had to put to sea, in gale-force winds and heavy seas to row out in a desperate attempt to save the crew of Forrest Hall before it sinks in the Bristol Channel.
Ten hours of fighting impossible seas, using only the lamps they carried, to accomplish their task. 14 men, risking their lives for complete strangers, that is the story that filmmakers Stephen Cookson and David Reynold tell in the animated-thriller, Louisa: An Amazing Adventure. Celia Imrie provides narration.
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