{"id":578305,"date":"2026-05-11T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578305\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:02:09","slug":"new-shetland-bus-films-to-be-screened-in-scalloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578305\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shetland Bus films to be screened in Scalloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO NEW locally-produced films about the Shetland Bus will soon launch to coincide with Norway\u2019s 17th May Constitution Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The first film, Hearts Across the Sea, is a 30-minute documentary featuring three Shetland people with living memories of World War II \u2013 Lexie Watt, Tommy Isbister and Douglas Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of Shetland Bus operations during WW2 and includes footage of last year\u2019s local events marking eighty years since the war\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>The second piece, Hands Across the Hills, is a four-minute music film documenting Jan Baalsrud\u2019s 1943 escape from occupied Norway when a WW2 Shetland Bus mission goes badly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The Shetland Bus memorial in Scalloway. Photo: SIC<\/p>\n<p>The film was shot in and around Troms\u00f8 last month by Jonathon Bulter to accompany a song which Claire White wrote in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s fiddle and vocals are accompanied by Robbie Leask of Lerwick on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Production of Hearts Across the Sea was funded by Scalloway Museum and Salmon Scotland while Hands Across the Hills was backed by Zetland Educational Trust and private donations.<\/p>\n<p>Both films will premiere publicly at Shetland UHI\u2019s Scalloway campus on Wednesday 20 May from 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that both films will help today\u2019s audiences and future generations understand and appreciate this important chapter in Shetland\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Free entry details will be shared by Scalloway Museum ahead of the event and attendees will hear directly from film-makers about production processes involved in addition to viewing both pieces on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>After this launch event both films will be available to view online and circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>White said: \u201cJonathon Bulter and I feel privileged to have produced these two films over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope they do justice to the astonishing bravery of all those involved in the Shetland Bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shetland News is asking its readers to consider paying for membership to get additional perks:<\/p>\n<p>Removal of third-party ads;<br \/>\nBookmark posts to read later;<br \/>\nExclusive curated weekly newsletter;<br \/>\nHide membership messages;<br \/>\nComments open for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>If you appreciate what we do and feel strongly about impartial local journalism, then please become a member of Shetland News by either making a single payment, or setting up a monthly, quarterly or yearly subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"row-text sign-in-message\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/account.shetnews.co.uk\/?redirect_to=https:\/\/www.shetnews.co.uk\/2026\/05\/11\/new-shetland-bus-films-screened\/\" title=\"Sign in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a> to hide this message.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/payments_horizontal_2.png\" alt=\"Payment methods accepted\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO NEW locally-produced films about the Shetland Bus will soon launch to coincide with Norway\u2019s 17th May Constitution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3471,46171,96,2839,14255,56,54,55,435],"class_list":["post-578305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bus","tag-claire","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-shetland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}