Barney Snow | Some Day I’ll Find You

FILM NOTES

This film premiered at Open City Documentary Festival in London on June 21st 2013. It has also shown at the Quadrangle Film Festival in 2013 and the Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham) in 2014.

The film is forty six minutes long and took me three years to make (inbetween TV projects) from earliest thoughts to near completion in May 2012. I produced, directed and filmed it myself.

It was edited by Sheryl Sandler and Lucy Harris. Richie Winnearls did the on-line and the post production sound. Tom Green scored it. Informal execs include Andy Lee, Bridget Smith, Dollan Cannell, James Dawson, Jason Massot and Joanna Pocock.

This is one of the thousands of hand-drawn images of the late Hollywood opera star Mario Lanza which are being found regularly in the Black Country. This is a typical example of one of the drawings. Drawn in felt tip, it's the reverse side of a beer mat measuring about 9cm x 9cm.

SOME DAY I'LL FIND YOU
Lyrics: Noel Coward
Some day I'll find you, moonlight behind you, true to the dream I am dreaming

As I draw near you, you'll smile a little smile, for a little while we shall stand hand in hand

I'll leave you never, love you for ever, all our past sorrow redeeming

Try to make it true, say you love me too

Someday I'll find you again

SOME DAY I’LL FIND YOU

In the Black Country (part of the West Midlands of Britain) strange things are happening. Hand drawn images of dead opera star Mario Lanza are being left everywhere anonymously Banksy style. In this art detective story I follow retired police inspector Mick Pearson as he looks into the mystery of the Lanza drawings.

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Very much part of the story is local artist Fred Barnfield, here being photographed by journalist Gavin Jones of The Black Country Bugle. It was meeting Gavin that first gave me the idea for this film.