By Staff Reporter
Documentary film, ‘Life begins at 90’, scooped its fifth award at the Travel FilmFest international film festival in Limassol in October.
The film, created by Paphos based ‘In Focus Films’, features 95-year-old WWII veteran Ray Woolley. It won the festival’s Audience Choice Award.
The Travel Filmfest saw carefully selected films compete and screen in front of a live audience.
“The festival collects the best travel and lifestyle films to screen,” festival founder Valery Shanin, also an enthusiastic travel film maker who has organised film festivals in Russia, said.
Life Begins at 90, was filmed in Cyprus and highlights Ray’s life, his passion for diving and the water, and his healthy approach to ageing.
Ray’s approach to a healthy life as the world’s oldest active scuba diver and a WWII veteran is inspirational. He broke his own Guinness world record on September 1, 2018, in Cyprus.
During the war Ray travelled the Mediterranean with the navy and was one of the first of the allied forces to land on Rhodes, after the Germans left in May 1945.
“I’m delighted with this prize and hope that my film inspires people of all ages to get up out of their chairs and do some exercise. Movement is the key and I swim in my pool three or four times a day,” he told the Paphos Post.
Life Begins at 90 will premier in the UK on November 9, at the Liverpool International Film Festival 2018, and Limassol resident Ray, who is originally from Port Sunlight on the Wirral Peninsula, will attend the festival.
“I will also march past the Cenotaph in London on Remembrance Sunday this year, as I did when I was ninety,” he told the Paphos Post.
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