![]() ![]() After being on the TV, many old friends who he hadn’t been in contact with for years started phoning him and he’s been sent memories about my grandma from people he didn’t even know or lost contact with. The movement has really helped my granddad. We had a short video on BBC News and ever since then it’s just grown and grown. It had hundreds of shares in just a few minutes. From there all the family shared it on our social media platforms and it just took off. ![]() The Yellow Heart movement began when my cousin Hannah made a post on Facebook just explaining it and how our grandma had died. You can’t hug your loved ones at the moment but on the Yellow Hearts Facebook page people can give you this virtual hug to let you know you’re not alone, that we’re in this together. This is why the Yellow Hearts movement has become so important, it’s about collectively grieving. Grandma had a green burial in a beautiful meadow and we were able to have nine people attend.īut it was very hard being there and not being able to give my grandad or my aunt Sarah, who was very close to Grandma, a hug, as we still had to maintain social distancing. We’ve been a lot luckier than some other families during lockdown because we were able to have a lovely funeral. When someone has dementia, you feel that you’ve already lost them in one way, but the really difficult thing about losing her to Covid-19 was that we weren’t able to go and say those final goodbyes. She’d had dementia for several years, but we think that she could have definitely carried on living for a few more years. We didn’t know that the last time we saw Grandma before lockdown was the last time we’d ever see her. So I think it’s really important to remember that these numbers aren’t just numbers, they are people who had their lives, families and many memories. When you see your loved one recorded in that way it’s very cold but there’s an individual behind each person that’s died and also a family who has been left behind. She was a big fan of walks as well, just being outdoors reminds me of lots of fond memories that I have of her. She loved nature and had the nicest garden when we were younger I remember her teaching us the names of all the different flowers and going newt searching with us in the little pond. She kept my grandad in check – he really does like to talk so she made sure that other people were able to get a word in edgeways! My grandma Sheila was lovely, she was the centre of the family and held everyone together. When you just hear statistics, like 500 people have died today, it doesn’t really mean anything – the yellow heart hopefully makes you take a step back and think this is much bigger than I thought. He wanted to do something similar during lockdown so that families who had lost someone during this time, not necessarily from Covid-19, could have a symbol of remembrance and a way of letting other people know that they are grieving. Her first project as a Producer was a web series called The Last Fall of Ashes that went on to win several awards worldwide.Grandad remembered hearing that in past wars families had tied yellow ribbons around trees and door handles in remembrance of the men who had left for war. The other to produce a music video for Alexz Johnson (watch HERE) alongside Red Castle Films. One for the short film she co-wrote and produced called Lead & Follow (watch HERE) alongside Ian Tracey. Krista had received two grants from STORYHIVE. Her team was also invited to pitch MPPIA that year. In 2015 her short documentary Authentic Kids won the WFF Canon Hi5 short film challenge in association with Canon Canada. In total it won seven awards, was nominated for thirty two (including three Leo Awards) and screened at eighteen film festivals around the world. The film had its world premiere at the Beijing Film Festival where it was the only Canadian film in competition for the Tiantian Award. In 2015 Krista co-produced Grand Unified Theory (funded by Telefilm) which won the WFF Audience Choice Award for the Most Popular Canadian Film in 2016. Her short film Nature Entwined premiered at Whistler Film Festival in 2020 and can now be seen on CBC. The film is complete (thanks to Telefilm funding/private equity), has Canadian distribution and is now looking for international sales and distribution. In 2020 she was invited by the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) to partake in their Producers Lab to develop the feature film Re: Uniting. KRISTA RAND has worked in Film and TV for over fifteen years, strategically gaining experience on both sides of the camera. ![]()
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