Acorn TV have unveiled an exclusive North American cut of their trailer for “Help,” the film written by Jack Thorne (“His Dark Materials”) starring “Killing Eve’s” Jodie Comer as a care worker caught up in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and Stephen Graham (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) as one of her patients.
“It started as a provocation from Stephen Graham, write something for me and Jodie, write something about Liverpool,” Thorne says of the film. “As it grew so we all took authorship of it, and we all grew together, inspired by the firsthand stories we were hearing. I am immensely proud of what we all made.”
In “Help,” which is set in Comer and Graham’s native Liverpool, Comer plays Sarah, a newly-trained care home worker who develops a bond with patient Tony (Graham), who is suffering from young-onset Alzheimers. As the Covid pandemic hits in...
“It started as a provocation from Stephen Graham, write something for me and Jodie, write something about Liverpool,” Thorne says of the film. “As it grew so we all took authorship of it, and we all grew together, inspired by the firsthand stories we were hearing. I am immensely proud of what we all made.”
In “Help,” which is set in Comer and Graham’s native Liverpool, Comer plays Sarah, a newly-trained care home worker who develops a bond with patient Tony (Graham), who is suffering from young-onset Alzheimers. As the Covid pandemic hits in...
- 1/10/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The Liverpool City Region Production Fund will target a further three or four productions over the space of a year.
The UK’s Liverpool Film Office has secured top-up funding for its Liverpool City Region (Lcr) Production Fund from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund.
An additional £1m will be invested over the space of one year, to help target feature films, TV drama, animation and comedy series with investments of between £100,000 and £500,000.
The investment will help the Lcr Production Fund to target a further three-four projects over the next 12 months, with priority given to productions able...
The UK’s Liverpool Film Office has secured top-up funding for its Liverpool City Region (Lcr) Production Fund from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund.
An additional £1m will be invested over the space of one year, to help target feature films, TV drama, animation and comedy series with investments of between £100,000 and £500,000.
The investment will help the Lcr Production Fund to target a further three-four projects over the next 12 months, with priority given to productions able...
- 10/12/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
U.K. regional funder Liverpool Film Office has launched a £250,000 single project development pot to support local talent during the coronavirus crisis using funds repurposed from its existing production fund.
The new Liverpool City Region Film & TV Development Fund will support feature film and TV content, including both scripted and factual programs, with development awards of between £2,500 and £25,000.
The development fund is open to established and start-up production companies based in and around Liverpool as well as to out-of-region producers looking to co-produce or collaborate with Liverpool-based talent.
The Film Office says it promises a responsive service via an online application portal that will indicate funding decisions within 10 working days.
It says it is giving priority to diverse, high-quality projects that commit to spending a significant proportion of their development budget within the local creative sector, and that have the greatest potential to move quickly into production in the city region once the market returns.
The new Liverpool City Region Film & TV Development Fund will support feature film and TV content, including both scripted and factual programs, with development awards of between £2,500 and £25,000.
The development fund is open to established and start-up production companies based in and around Liverpool as well as to out-of-region producers looking to co-produce or collaborate with Liverpool-based talent.
The Film Office says it promises a responsive service via an online application portal that will indicate funding decisions within 10 working days.
It says it is giving priority to diverse, high-quality projects that commit to spending a significant proportion of their development budget within the local creative sector, and that have the greatest potential to move quickly into production in the city region once the market returns.
- 4/15/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: 45 Years producer Tristan Goligher on roster.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Alex Taylor’s directorial debut, Spaceship.
The distributor is planning a limited theatrical release in November, followed by DVD and VoD, for the film that had its world premiere at SXSW.
Spaceship centres on teenage cyber-goth Lucidia, whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father, Gabriel, is an archaeologist who can’t move on.
When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. The story is told from multiple points of view, both teenage and adult.
Alexa Davies, Tallulah Haddon, Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Antti Reini, and singer-songwriter Annabel Allum star.
Spaceship was developed, financed and produced under Creative England’s iFeatures banner, supported by [link...
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to former Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Alex Taylor’s directorial debut, Spaceship.
The distributor is planning a limited theatrical release in November, followed by DVD and VoD, for the film that had its world premiere at SXSW.
Spaceship centres on teenage cyber-goth Lucidia, whose mother died mysteriously seven years ago in the family swimming pool. Her father, Gabriel, is an archaeologist who can’t move on.
When Lucidia disappears in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel is forced to confront her strange outsider friends and meets Tegan, a girl obsessed with unicorns and black holes. The story is told from multiple points of view, both teenage and adult.
Alexa Davies, Tallulah Haddon, Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Antti Reini, and singer-songwriter Annabel Allum star.
Spaceship was developed, financed and produced under Creative England’s iFeatures banner, supported by [link...
- 6/29/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Hope Dickson Leach writes and directs Somerset floods film now underway.
Principal photography is underway in the UK on iFeatures drama The Levelling, starring Game Of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick.
Writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, makes her feature debut on the drama, which is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods and follows a young woman who returns home to her family dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.
The film is the second to go into production through the most recent round of the iFeatures initiative, a low-budget filmmaking scheme funded by Creative England, BBC Films, Creative Skillset and the BFI.
Dickson Leach’s award-winning short The Dawn Chorus was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh and the BFI London Film Festival.
Kendrick, best known for her role as Meera Reed in HBO series Game of Thrones and the title role in BBC miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, was recently...
Principal photography is underway in the UK on iFeatures drama The Levelling, starring Game Of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick.
Writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, makes her feature debut on the drama, which is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods and follows a young woman who returns home to her family dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.
The film is the second to go into production through the most recent round of the iFeatures initiative, a low-budget filmmaking scheme funded by Creative England, BBC Films, Creative Skillset and the BFI.
Dickson Leach’s award-winning short The Dawn Chorus was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh and the BFI London Film Festival.
Kendrick, best known for her role as Meera Reed in HBO series Game of Thrones and the title role in BBC miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, was recently...
- 10/5/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Hope Dickson Leach writes and directs Somerset floods film now underway.
Principal photography is underway in the UK on iFeatures drama The Levelling, starring Game Of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick.
Writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, makes her feature debut on the drama, which is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods and follows a young woman who returns home to her family dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.
The film is the second to go into production through the most recent round of the iFeatures initiative, a low-budget filmmaking scheme funded by Creative England, BBC Films, Creative Skillset and the BFI.
Dickson Leach’saward-winning short The Dawn Chorus was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh and the BFI London Film Festival.
Kendrick, best known for her role as Meera Reed in HBO series Game of Thrones and Anne Frank in the BBC’s 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, was recently...
Principal photography is underway in the UK on iFeatures drama The Levelling, starring Game Of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick.
Writer-director Hope Dickson Leach, a former Screen Star of Tomorrow, makes her feature debut on the drama, which is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods and follows a young woman who returns home to her family dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.
The film is the second to go into production through the most recent round of the iFeatures initiative, a low-budget filmmaking scheme funded by Creative England, BBC Films, Creative Skillset and the BFI.
Dickson Leach’saward-winning short The Dawn Chorus was selected for Sundance, Edinburgh and the BFI London Film Festival.
Kendrick, best known for her role as Meera Reed in HBO series Game of Thrones and Anne Frank in the BBC’s 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, was recently...
- 10/5/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production underway in UK on next iFeatures film, its first period drama.
Principal photography is underway on this year’s first iFeatures film Lady Macbeth, which will star Florence Pugh (The Falling).
Theatre director William Oldroyd makes his feature debut on the 19th Century period drama.
Singer-songwriter and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Cosmo Jarvis (Spooks: The Greater Good) will play opposite Pugh while supporting cast includes Christopher Fairbank (Guardians of the Galaxy), newcomer Naomi Ackie and Paul Hilton (Wuthering Heights).
Lady Macbeth centres on Katherine, a young woman brought up in the wilds of Northumberland, who finds herself childless and friendless, stifled by her marriage of convenience to a rich local industrialist twice her age.
Tired of the vast house she shares with her detached husband and father-in-law, Katherine’s interests become piqued by Sebastian, a worker on her husband’s estate. Sebastian unlocks a fearsome passion in Katherine. As their illicit...
Principal photography is underway on this year’s first iFeatures film Lady Macbeth, which will star Florence Pugh (The Falling).
Theatre director William Oldroyd makes his feature debut on the 19th Century period drama.
Singer-songwriter and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Cosmo Jarvis (Spooks: The Greater Good) will play opposite Pugh while supporting cast includes Christopher Fairbank (Guardians of the Galaxy), newcomer Naomi Ackie and Paul Hilton (Wuthering Heights).
Lady Macbeth centres on Katherine, a young woman brought up in the wilds of Northumberland, who finds herself childless and friendless, stifled by her marriage of convenience to a rich local industrialist twice her age.
Tired of the vast house she shares with her detached husband and father-in-law, Katherine’s interests become piqued by Sebastian, a worker on her husband’s estate. Sebastian unlocks a fearsome passion in Katherine. As their illicit...
- 9/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
New projects from Screen Stars of Tomorrow, playwrights, TV talent.
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
UK low-budget filmmaking scheme iFeatures has selected 18 projects (below) for its next development slate.
The scheme, backed by Creative England, BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, selected 18 - instead of the usual 16 - feature-length projects from more than 400 submissions.
Three films will be ‘greenlit’ in March 2015 at budgets of £350,000.
The roster of writing and directing talent includes Lynsey Miller, Hope Dickson Leach and Dan Gitsham, all recent Screen Stars of Tomorrow; Rachel De-lahay, winner of 2013 Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright; Dominic Leclerc, director of Skins and The Village; Alice Birch, winner of this year’s George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright; Olivia Poulet, star of The Thick Of It; BAFTA Scotland winner Zam Salim; Broadcast Hotshots Abby Ajayi and Alex Kalymnios; and William Oldroyd whose short Best won the 2013 Sundance London Short Film Competition.
Producers include Nfts graduates Jessica Levick and Fodhla Cronin...
- 6/30/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Principal photography has begun on the second feature from Martin Radich.
Denis Menochet (Inglourious Basterds, Robin Hood) and Barry Keoghan (Stay 71) have been cast in Norfolk. They will play a father and son who live a reclusive lifestyle in the middle of nowhere.
The man, a disillusioned mercenary, has his final target in sight - a gang of foreign revolutionaries who lay low in a nearby derelict compound. But as the man closes in on his target, the boy falls for the revolutionaries’ serving girl and having spent his whole life in isolation the boy now discovers the warmth of friendship and the pleasures of something more leading to conflict with his father.
Principal photography began on Sept 10 on location in Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
Backed by Creative England, BBC Films and the BFI, it is an Sdi Productions, Crybaby Films and iFeatures Production.
Developed as part of the iFeatures2 low budget filmmaking initiative programme, Norfolk is one...
Denis Menochet (Inglourious Basterds, Robin Hood) and Barry Keoghan (Stay 71) have been cast in Norfolk. They will play a father and son who live a reclusive lifestyle in the middle of nowhere.
The man, a disillusioned mercenary, has his final target in sight - a gang of foreign revolutionaries who lay low in a nearby derelict compound. But as the man closes in on his target, the boy falls for the revolutionaries’ serving girl and having spent his whole life in isolation the boy now discovers the warmth of friendship and the pleasures of something more leading to conflict with his father.
Principal photography began on Sept 10 on location in Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
Backed by Creative England, BBC Films and the BFI, it is an Sdi Productions, Crybaby Films and iFeatures Production.
Developed as part of the iFeatures2 low budget filmmaking initiative programme, Norfolk is one...
- 9/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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