Above Us the Earth
85 mins
Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home. Critical of the National Coal Board and the trade unions, the film focuses on the fractious interactions between politicians and union leaders, teasing out the forces that are attempting to divide the community.
Neil Thomson
Editor
Roger Evans
Cinematography
Trevor Gittings
Camera Operator
Albert Bailey
Sound
Mike Davis
Camera Operator
Ray Beckett
Sound
Peter Harvey
Sound
Mike Fox
Camera Operator