Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War

This Ravilious event screening has special significance, introduced by V&A director Dr Tristram Hunt and moderated by Danny Leigh film critic of Financial Times at V&A Museum in London. We filmed here during production. Eric Ravilious studied here as a student at the RCA in 1920’s. Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood’s granddaughter Ella Ravilious works at V&A as curator, part of her job is caring for the art of her grandparents. The “Long Man of Wilmington” painting for the poster (seen here blown up vast) is in the V&A, as are the Ravilious Wedgwood ceramics. What a fabulous setting in this auditorium and huge thanks to the V&A.

Director/Producer Margy Kinmonth

We are so happy to win Best Documentary Campaign of the Year at the Screen Awards for multi award winning ERIC RAVILIOUS: DRAWN TO WAR!

I’ve done over 35 sellout Q&A screenings around UK, and my road trip has been so much fun. As a director I am totally committed to the big screen, especially as a place to tell stories about art. Audiences voted with their feet this year to break lockdown. A huge thank you to our distributor Dartmouth Films, publicist Charles Mcdonald, digital media co-ordinator Georgia Wilson, generous reviewers and massive thank you to the hundreds of cinemas and local  managers that helped make this campaign so successful. 

Director/Producer Margy Kinmonth

There are still more opportunities to catch the film on the big screen in UK and internationally, special events https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war, and reprising across the Picturehouse circuit Jan 3rd 2023 with Q&A.

The film also continues to be one of the most popular documentaries of the year on Curzon Home Cinema, if you’d like to watch this ‘lovingly crafted documentary portrait‘ at home.

Photographs by Grace Mossimi

Foxtrot Films presented a Special Q&A Screening of Margy Kinmonth’s film Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War in aid of the West London Zone charity at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, hosted by WLZ Trustee Sir David Verey.

WLZ’s mission is to enable children and young people to access social, emotional and academic support.

Margy Kinmonth says:

Eric Ravilious came from a poor beginning.  It was his teacher at school who spotted his natural talent for drawing and encouraged him … as a result his art thrived.  He is an inspiration.

Tickets for the screening at the Documentary Festival of Margy Kinmonth’s film, Drawn to War, have sold out but you can still see the film as the cinema will be showing an extra screening on Sunday 27th November at 5 pm.

Aldeburgh Documentary Film Festival Screening and talk on 18th November

Dr James Cahill, art historian and curator, talks to Ella Ravilious, Dr Alan Powers and director Margy Kinmonth.

Dr Alan Powers

Dr Alan Powers has written extensively on Ravilious. He writes and lectures on twentieth-century art, architecture and design. He has been a guest curator at Kettles Yard and the Design Museum, and was a Professor in Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich in East London.

Ella Ravilious

Ella Ravilious is the granddaughter of Eric Ravilious and a Curator of Design and Architecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Margy Kinmonth

Margy Kinmonth is a BAFTA winning film and television director whose many credits include Revolution–New Art for a New World marking the 1917 Russian Revolution, Hermitage Revealed and Royal Paintbox with His Majesty King Charles III.

Feature: 87 mins        Session 120 mins

Margy Kinmonth’s feature doc on Eric Ravilious is twice nominated for The Big Screen Awards:

• Best Documentary Film Campaign of the Year.
• Distributor of the Year – Independent.

Massive thanks to Charles Mcdonald PR for the campaign and distributor Dartmouth Films for their hugely deserved nominations, the film has played in over 200 screens across UK and is now officially the most successful British Independent film since pre lockdown.  The awards take place on November 24th in London.

WFTV Award winning rerecording mixer Kate Davis talks about creating the sound design of Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War with WFTV award recipient director Margy Kinmonth.
Hosted by exec producer Maureen Murray at the Garden Cinema London.
Thanks to post production house Directors Cut Films.