Seven Arts is making a specific effort to acquire and distribute films with substantial DVD and home video potential, even if there is limited theatrical release. Such “made for DVD” films are particularly popular in the “horror” and “family entertainment” genres which Seven Arts is pursuing aggressively. One strategy that Seven Arts is pursuing is to assist in the actual production of several films each year to provide additional product for its distribution system. The company hopes to increase its library of approximately 21 films to more than 75 films within the next 5 years.

Seven Arts is currently involved with the Arthurian historical epic adventure, “Mortal Armor: The Legend of Galahad”. This film, which is in pre-production, follows the journey of young Galahad in his quest for the Holy Grail, which a dying King Arthur believed might save his war-ravaged kingdom from destruction. As the story unfolds, Galahad finds his first love, meets his long-lost father, Lancelot, and seeks to prove himself a worthy knight. The company has secured the worldwide rights to the film.

Synopsis

With his dying breath, King Arthur asks the young Galahad to seek out the Holy Grail. His last hope? That the Grail’s discovery might save the war-ravaged Kingdom from destruction. But as Galahad’s epic journey unfolds, the quest for this holy and mysterious object leads him down unexpected new paths, as he finds his first love, his long-lost father Lancelot, and seeks to prove himself as a knight.

Mortal Armour on 7Arts

His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries.

But the Church of England is considering rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.

Clergy have started a campaign to replace George with St Alban, a Christian martyr in Roman Britain.

The scheme, to be considered by the Church’s parliament, the General Synod, has met a cautious but sympathetic response from senior bishops.

The proposal has been put forward by the Rev Philip Chester, vicar of St Matthew’s, Westminster, who has called the use of St George as patron saint ‘dotty’.

His call for a change is based on the lack of firm historical evidence that George - said to be a Roman general from the 4th century AD who was put to death by Emperor Diocletian for professing Christianity - ever existed.

Centuries pass in the blink of an eye and the Realm of Erin is in the hands of the Tuatha De Danaan, the Children of Danu. This episode starts with a mysterious vision and then goes on to tell us how the descendants of the Old Gods make a disastrous mistake…

The Episode is available for subscribers on the feed, or you can download it or listen to it from our Episodes page. You can find the Shownotes for this episode in the Shownotes section.

The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles, but little is known about it.

Strathclyde’s Boyd Robertson, convener of the Faclair na Gaidhlig project steering group, commented ahead of the launch of a business plan for it.

This is a blog by Kirsten Campbell, a student of Archaeology and Celtic Civilisation with a gift for the creative.  Kirsten is an aspiring writer of historical fiction and here she speculates about the possibilities of ancient prosthetics - artificial limbs. Her home on the web is Kirsten’s Scribbling Corner.

“Lip service was paid to archaeology, but archaeologists were used to destroy our heritage,” said Ms Ronayne. “From the point of view of archaeology, the route chosen by the NRA was the least desirable, and other routes were not properly considered because they were not profitable for developers.”

We received the sad news in Ireland last night that our dear friend and colleague in Druidry, Rollo Maughfling, Archdruid of Stonehenge and England, Founder of the Glastonbury Order of Druids (G.O.D.), was admitted to hospital . He is blind and paralysed, suffering from a lethal stroke it seems. Rollo is also Stonehenge Officer of the Council of British Druid Orders, the largest of its kind in the world, encompassing at least 18 Druid Orders and Associates at home and abroad, and co-ordinating their work with many more, as the best-known and most active Druid umbrella group on the planet, representing 17,000 Druids.