Bermuda International Film Festival 2009

The Lion and The Mouse is the epic tale of two countries, the United States of America and Bermuda. Using local actors, the film charts the landmark moments, relationships, conflicts and characters, that all played a part in the first four centuries of settlement in America and Bermuda. It is told through the historic perspective of Bermuda’s people and their direct role in the birth of America and its development as a nation. Bermudians embodied the necessary reinvention and adaptability to prosper in a changing Atlantic world.

At times mercurial, treasonous and unprincipled but with the wiles of a small independent nation Bermuda was able to adapt its strategic location to military and trade routes and to overcome its insignificant size, and vulnerability to hostile nations through time become an unlikely but significant US ally. A shipwreck, a rebellion of stolen gunpowder to save George Washington’s revolutionary army, and a freed slave ship – as the Mouse of Aesop’s fable says to the lion, “Was I not right?”