The Light Burns Blue

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

WW1, 1917. While death and destruction ravages the world, 17 year old Elsie Wright borrows her father’s camera, and with her cousin Francis, captures images of the fairies in the beck at the bottom of their garden.

Unprepared for the global frenzy that follows as the world holds tight to the light that these images provide, the girls become media sensations. While a young reporter sets out to uncover Elsie as a fraud, the real question remains… what power does an image hold?

Based on the true story of the Cottingley fairies, The Light Burns Blue asks us to reflect on the ethical dilemmas of truth and lies, and the whether we can believe all that we see, and to consider, in a world of darkness, what do we really need?