
Footprints in the Snow
The Holocaust is the subject here, covered as a brief overview rather than an exhaustive history, built around the testimony of survivor Simon Winston and interviews with historian Professor Bill Niven. The film moves between personal recollection and historical context, using Winston's account to ground the larger record of persecution, ghettoization, and mass extermination carried out by Nazi Germany against Jews and other groups the regime targeted. Niven supplies the academic framing, situating individual suffering within the broader mechanics of the genocide. George Telfer narrates, and the film was made as a student project by producer Daniel Saunders, who later went on to shoot a separate film about the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in Nottinghamshire. Despite its modest scale and rough audio, the film won Best Factual Film at the Gedling Film Festival. It stays close to Winston's voice throughout, treating one survivor's memory as the way into an event too large to summarize any other way.