Short Films

Your membership and support is enabling Sarah to follow the work of archaeologist Dr Jesùs Francisco Torres Martinez in the Cantabrian Mountains and to make short films about the little known but brutal Cantabrian War. It is a huge story that she hopes to also turn into a 60 minute film.

Short documentary films about Rome's Forgotten War, Coming soon.

I made my first long-awaited visit to Palencia, in the north of Spain, in September 2024. The weather had already turned and the rain derailed some of my plans but I was able to visit the atmospheric Iron Age hill fort La Loma, the site of an intense battle between besieging Roman forces and the Cantabrian warriors inside. I saw just a fraction of the enormous quantity of Roman arrowheads and projectiles found here. Dr Torres Martinez drove us to an incredibly beautiful and sacred place on the other side of the mountains. A place I didn't know I wanted to include in the the story until I saw it and realised I had found the end to my eventual film. And we saw the mountains shrouded in the sort of mist that evokes imagined images of Celtic warriors appearing in the gloom. Keep an eye out for what will be my first series of short films about this vast and extraordinary story.