Award of Merit – “Emmott & Rowland” (UK)

Title: Emmott & Rowland
Runtime: 15 min
Country: UK
Director: Aneel Ahmad
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: September 30, 2017

Synopsis: Emmott and Rowland were sweethearts whose romance played out in the village of Eyam during the Plague of 1665/1666. Theirs was a sad and romantic tragedy, which has captured the imagination of those who read about it over the following hundreds of years.