THE TESTIMONY OF TALIESIN JONES

For 12-year-old Welsh schoolboy Taliesin Jones, it's the little things that plague him, like the outbreak of warts on his hands. Lord knows, he's got other problems and uncertainties, specifically that his mother has run away from dad and found herself a new boyfriend. But right now it's warts. For that scourge, Taliesin tries an unorthodox treatment. Billy Evans, his kindly old piano teacher, has long carried on a low-key second career – village faith healer to the desperately afflicted. Now Taliesin seeks his intervention. A private prayer, a laying-on of hands, a surge of endergy, and it's done; the boy's warts vanish as if by . . . magic? Or by miracle of God? Now Taliesin feels a pull towards the divine, so much that his newfound religious fervor alarms and atangonizes his family and fellow students. Dedicated to the late, great British actor Ian Bannen, THE TESTIMONY OF TALIESIN JONES is a rare find, a sensitive, all-ages spiritual drama that never condescends or turns into a sermon or tract, and makes you feel that the world is a better place for its presence. This small gem's intelligence, sincerity and acting won it a Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2000 Austin Film Festival, and we have faith you will join in Taliesin's creed to “believe . . . just believe.”