Rekha Garton, who achieved success with the short film the Herring Girls, has announced her next project, Ash Fields, which will be shot in Norfolk using an entirely local cast and crew.

Rekha Garton with Tom Hiddleston on the set of The Essex Serpent (Image: Rekha Garton) The 20-minute short follows the lives of three members of the Women’s Land Army (WLA), focusing on a romantic relationship between two of the young women - a story Rekha says “certainly happened, but has been lost in history”.

The plot also weaves in a ghostly soldier and a grumpy farmer, capturing both the hardship and emotional complexity of wartime life.

The film poster for Ash Fields (Image: Rekha Garton) The production is set in and around Norwich, with farmers in Dereham offering access to period-appropriate plots of land.

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