Film featured in the Hay Literary Festival in Herefordshire for the first time this year.

Not just any film. Black Hill Revisited was produced in the very area it was screened, rural West Herefordshire, by a locally based company.

Denise Salmon of Triumvirate Films, who directed the film, said: "It's wonderful that the festival chose to screen a locally-made, hugely relevant film as it's first venture into this medium."

Black Hill Revisited is a powerful documentary about the impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on the community of the Olchon Valley area, not far from Hay-on-Wye. Shot in the autumn of 2001, it is a companion piece to Views From The Black Hill, shot in 2000, which told of the trials facing the same community as their traditional way of life crumbled.

The film-makers returned to the Olchon Valley area to find out about the community's experience of Foot and Mouth, and the consequences it had had for their way of life.

"Black Hill Revisited provides a moving insight into what the images we all saw on the news meant to real people in one of the country's most rural counties," said Denise. The horror of the cull and its far-reaching consequences are recounted in the film with the stoicism that always defined the area."

Along with another locally-produced film, Shroves, Black Hill Revisited formed the centrepiece of the Black Mountain Barbecue, which included a debate on local food production and culminated in the serving of various local foods.