SXSW Bound Musical Hybrid Documentary ‘Adrianne & The Castle,’ Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Shannon Walsh’s documentary “Adrianne & The Castle,” which will make its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 9, tells the love story of Alan St.
George and his late wife, Adrianne, via fantastical musical re-enactments. Before her death, St. Georges, a mascot-maker and artist, hand-built Havencrest Castle, a medieval castle in rural Illinois that represented the love between the couple.
Walsh follows St. George as he puts the finishing touches on Havencrest Castle while also grappling with his grief over the passing of his wife. “We say it’s the greatest love story you’ve never heard of,” says Walsh, whose previous films include “The Gig Is Up.” “It’s really a story of love and grief and the risk that you take whenever you fall in love.
Grief is really the central thread. But it’s also about imagination and our ability to create the worlds that we want to inhabit.” Walsh teamed with producer Ina Fichman (“Fire of Love”) to make the doc, which Fichman calls a”documentary musical.” The duo pitched the idea for the film in 2022 at the Hot Docs Forum, where projects are presented for co-production financing to a roundtable of leading commissioning editors, film fund representatives, financiers, programming executives and angel investors.
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