A film showing at The Blake Theatre Monmouth on 9th May 7:30 by one of our PGP members
This is a film about the search for a rare butterfly which was co-produced by one of our members,
Brockweir-based documentary film-maker Matt Fletcher, will be shown at the Blake Theatre,
Monmouth, at 7.30 on 9 May. Matt’s assignments take him to a wide variety of exciting locations
across the globe, and in this case the setting is the Caucasus mountains and the heavily
disputed border between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
The film is titled Searching for Satyrus, and follows photographer Rena Effendi in pursuit of
Satyrus effendi, a critically endangered butterfly named after her father, an enigmatic Soviet
entomologist. He was largely absent from her life and died when she was 14, amid the collapse
of the Soviet Union. Rena retraces his old butterfly-hunting routes in a landscape devastated by
decades of war. Satyrus effendi is known to appear only once a year, on a militarised border no
one is permitted to cross. On her journey of discovery, Rena confronts the distance between her
and her father, and comes to terms with his troubled legacy.
The film is being in shown in selected cinemas, and Matt will take part in a question and answer
session after the Monmouth screening. Here is the link for tickets:
https://www.undergroundslate.com/searchingforsatyrus