SAVANNAH

Savannah is a period film set in the old South: it is a story of redemption that takes more than a lifetime to achieve.  Set in the lush landscape of the Savannah River with its marshes and moss-draped live oaks and the Civil War city famously spared by Sherman for its beauty and charm, this historical tale is both romantic and tragic.

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Ward Allen is larger than life, maddening and endearing, brilliant and effusive.  Born into deep Southern wealth, he turns his back on the family plantation choosing instead a fiercely independent life on the river.  He becomes a legendary market hunter—the best damn rifleman on the Savannah River—armed equally with an encyclopedic knowledge of Shakespeare and a bottomless knowledge of the marsh and the birds that inhabit it.

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Ward occupies an invincible place in Savannah’s pantheon of characters until a personal tragedy, coupled with the seismic socio-political shifts of the early twentieth-century, leave him groundless—psychologically and literally.  Unable to become a different man, he drifts away from society and retreats into the solitude of the river, with his only touch-point to the world, Christmas Moultrie, a freed slave and steadfast friend.

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