A NEW film documenting a major moment in Hampshire history will be shown at Upper Clatford Village Hall this evening.

Following the story of the only Mayflower passenger to have travelled previously to North America, the 90-minute film entitled ‘Stephano’ formed a part of Southampton's Mayflower 400 anniversary programme last year.

A decade before the Mayflower left Hampshire shores, a man named Stephen Hopkins from Upper Clatford had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda, inspiring Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest.

The film, produced and directed by Twice Emmy-nominated Andrew Giles Buckley, retraces Hopkins' life criss-crossing the Atlantic.

A Hopkins descendant, Andrew Giles Buckley grew up hearing stories that New Plymouth's iconoclast tavern-keeper may have been the inspiration for The Tempest's drunken and mutinous Stephano.

Now, he has travelled to the UK from his home in Cape Cod, USA, and last night met with members of Upper Clatford Parish Council.

The film is being shown at Upper Clatford Village Hall this evening at 7.30pm (Wednesday, October 6), with the last few remaining tickets available from the Crook and Shears pub.

The event will also see the grand unveiling of the Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins plaque.