Sir Sean Connery is
lending his support to St Andrews University by narrating a film about its
history.
The film Ever to Excel
is the first cinematic account of the foundation and development of the
institution and will be premièred on Wednesday in New York.
Sir Sean, film director
Murray Grigor OBE, and principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St
Andrews professor Louise Richardson will be in New York for the première.
The university is
currently celebrating its 600th anniversary spanning three years from 2011 to
2013.
Sir Sean said: “When
Louise Richardson invited me to collaborate on a film to mark our 600 years, as
a key part of the scholarship endowment campaign, I readily agreed.
“As our film Ever to
Excel began to take shape, I soon came to realise how central St Andrews is to
Scotland. And how, in a very real sense, it is to America too.
“I’m proud to
be an honorary graduate of a place where good is never good enough. Happy
Birthday St Andrews.”
Talented graduates who
star in the film also include, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, novelist
Fay Weldon, poet Jay Parini, psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, the writer
Alastair Reid, as well as executive director at The Foundation for Tomorrow
Meghann Gunderman, and businessman Oliver Sarkozy.
Together with Sir Sean’s
narrative their memories and recollections help to tell the remarkable story of
how a university came to be founded on the East coast of Scotland in the 15th
century and of those who have since left St Andrews to change the world.
The film also
includes revealing interviews with staff who taught Prince William of Wales,
who is a graduate of the university, as is his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge
Catherine Middleton. Both attended the official launch of the university’s
600th Anniversary Campaign of which Prince William is patron.
Source (with
preview): STV
Also reported
(with 9 minute trailer) by St Andrews Radio
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