A brand new documentary movie on whisky, “The Water of Life,” will make its U.S. broadcast debut throughout the PBS Community this June.
Filmed in six nations, on three continents, over the course of three years, The Water of Life tells the story of what’s described because the artistic revolution that saved Scotland’s once-sagging whisky trade and turned it into the colourful trade it’s right now.
Picked up by the community’s syndication arm PBS Plus, the 88-minute movie will likely be screened on PBS networks in additional than 200 markets this month.
The Water of Life (picture by way of Water of Life)
The vast majority of member stations will premiere the documentary in primetime in the course of the week of June twenty seventh. PBS will retain the rights to broadcast The Water of Life for a 12 months. From now till July sixth, the movie will even be obtainable on the PBS web site by way of pbs.org and the PBS app.
A press release from PBS notes that the movie highlights a half-dozen distillers and distilleries, and focuses a lot of its time on the resurrection of the Bruichladdich Distillery on the distant Scottish island of Islay.
Below the management of entrepreneurs Mark Reynier, Simon Coughlin and whisky legend Jim McEwan, the distillery went from being a mothballed reminiscence to a world-beating innovator in a couple of brief years, which the documentarians known as “a artistic explosion that helped save the struggling financial system of the island usually known as Whisky Island.”
The story additionally options world famend whisky author Charles Maclean, MBE; grasp distiller Billy Walker; grasp blenders Dr. Rachel Barrie and David Stewart, MBE; and the following technology of innovators like Adam Hannett, Kelsey McKechnie, Liam Hughes, Iain Croucher, and Eddie Brook.
The movie was produced by Blacksmith & Jones, the manufacturing firm that Swartz co-owns with producer Trevor Jones. Actress Brittany Curran (The Magicians, Chicago Hearth) served as govt producer. It was co-produced by Particular Order and Aurora Movies.
“We’re very excited to be on PBS as a result of it’s actually the gold commonplace of documentary movie in America,” Jones mentioned. “We predict it’s an ideal match as a result of the movie is as a lot a love letter to Scotland as it’s to whisky itself and we actually tried to create a cinematic portrayal of the attractive Scottish countryside.”
Curran mentioned that they knew they wished to make a movie that might attraction simply as a lot to individuals who don’t drink whisky as it will to those that are consultants.
“We shot, scored, and paced the movie purposely to convey the viewers on a sensory journey as they watch the story unfold. And we expect that that’s fairly distinctive. We’re enthusiastic about it as filmmakers and as whisky geeks.”
Viewers can try www.pbs.org/present/water-life/ to look at the movie in June and discover air dates and showtimes on their native PBS member station.
