The Last Of Us breakout star Bella Ramsey has signed on to play the White Widow, one Britain’s most notorious terrorist suspects.
The Last Of Us season 2 is well into production, but that hasn’t stopped Bella Ramsey from branching out. Deadline reports that Ramsey will star in Girl Next Door, writer-director Bruce Goodison’s film about Sherafiyah Lewthwaite, also known as the White Widow.
The film will tell the story of “a 21 year old suburban mother of two who became radicalised”. The real Lewthwaite, who was born as Samatha Louise Lewthwaite, is the widow of one of the 7/7 bombers and is accused of causing more than 400 deaths.
“This film is about a young life-affirming idealist with a broken heart,” Goodison said of his film, which is currently in development. “Sam turns her grief into a strength that was then exploited by men for purposes of global terror. I...
The Last Of Us season 2 is well into production, but that hasn’t stopped Bella Ramsey from branching out. Deadline reports that Ramsey will star in Girl Next Door, writer-director Bruce Goodison’s film about Sherafiyah Lewthwaite, also known as the White Widow.
The film will tell the story of “a 21 year old suburban mother of two who became radicalised”. The real Lewthwaite, who was born as Samatha Louise Lewthwaite, is the widow of one of the 7/7 bombers and is accused of causing more than 400 deaths.
“This film is about a young life-affirming idealist with a broken heart,” Goodison said of his film, which is currently in development. “Sam turns her grief into a strength that was then exploited by men for purposes of global terror. I...
- 5/10/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
The Last Of Us and Game Of Thrones star Bella Ramsey is taking on a challenging and provocative role as they have been set to play the British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite, aka the White Widow.
Celsius Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to movie Girl Next Door and is launching ahead of the Cannes market. The project is written and directed by Bruce Goodison with filming being lined up for October 2024.
The film is inspired by the true story of a 21 year old suburban mother of two who became radicalised. Lewthwaite (who took the first name Sherafiyah), the widow of a 7/7 London terrorist bomber, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 400 people. She is a fugitive from justice in Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possession of explosives.
The film was BFI-backed for development. Kate Cook and Julia Berg produce for Indefinite Films, Andee Ryder...
Celsius Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to movie Girl Next Door and is launching ahead of the Cannes market. The project is written and directed by Bruce Goodison with filming being lined up for October 2024.
The film is inspired by the true story of a 21 year old suburban mother of two who became radicalised. Lewthwaite (who took the first name Sherafiyah), the widow of a 7/7 London terrorist bomber, is accused of causing the deaths of more than 400 people. She is a fugitive from justice in Kenya, where she is wanted on charges of possession of explosives.
The film was BFI-backed for development. Kate Cook and Julia Berg produce for Indefinite Films, Andee Ryder...
- 5/10/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey will take on the role of one of the U.K.’s most mysterious and infamous modern day figures in “Girl Next Door” from writer/director Bruce Goodison (“Leave to Remain”).
The film — which Celsius Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to and will launch in Cannes — is set to tell the story of Samantha Lewthwaite, who became known as ‘The White Widow’ and one of the world’s most wanted women.
As per the plot details, “Girl Next Door” centres on Lewthwaite (Ramsey), who fell in love with Islam long before being Muslim was politicised and militarised and became known as ‘The White Widow’. What began as teenage curiosity about an “exotic” and welcoming faith as embodied by her neighbours and best friend, ended with Samantha being consumed by its more radical fringes. We follow Sam in the days following the 7/7 attacks...
The film — which Celsius Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to and will launch in Cannes — is set to tell the story of Samantha Lewthwaite, who became known as ‘The White Widow’ and one of the world’s most wanted women.
As per the plot details, “Girl Next Door” centres on Lewthwaite (Ramsey), who fell in love with Islam long before being Muslim was politicised and militarised and became known as ‘The White Widow’. What began as teenage curiosity about an “exotic” and welcoming faith as embodied by her neighbours and best friend, ended with Samantha being consumed by its more radical fringes. We follow Sam in the days following the 7/7 attacks...
- 5/10/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
From Shudder, Sony Pictures Television and Stolen Pictures comes Black Cab, a supernatural horror movie starring Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) that Screen Daily previews today.
Nick Frost will play “an erratic cab driver” in the upcoming horror movie from director Bruce Goodison.
Screen Daily details, “Last Night In Soho’s Synnøve Karlsen and The Colour Room’s Luke Norris play a couple who find their jovial black cab driver is not taking them home.
“Trapped on a desolate, supposedly haunted road, they are faced with their captor’s true intentions.”
David Michael Emerson and Virginia Gilbert wrote the screenplay, with what Screen Daily describes in their report as “additional writing material from [Nick] Frost.”
You can expect Black Cab to open up its doors on Shudder later this year.
The post ‘Black Cab’ – First Look at Nick Frost in Supernatural Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Nick Frost will play “an erratic cab driver” in the upcoming horror movie from director Bruce Goodison.
Screen Daily details, “Last Night In Soho’s Synnøve Karlsen and The Colour Room’s Luke Norris play a couple who find their jovial black cab driver is not taking them home.
“Trapped on a desolate, supposedly haunted road, they are faced with their captor’s true intentions.”
David Michael Emerson and Virginia Gilbert wrote the screenplay, with what Screen Daily describes in their report as “additional writing material from [Nick] Frost.”
You can expect Black Cab to open up its doors on Shudder later this year.
The post ‘Black Cab’ – First Look at Nick Frost in Supernatural Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 5/7/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
London and Paris-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded Bruce Goodison’s supernatural horror Black Cab starring Nick Frost.
Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz star Frost play an erratic cab driver, with Last Night In Soho’s Synnøve Karlsen and The Colour Room’s Luke Norris playing couple who find their jovial black cab driver is not taking them home. Trapped on a desolate, supposedly haunted road, they are faced with their captor’s true intentions.
Sony Pictures Television and Stolen Pictures are co-producing alongside AMC Networks’ genre entertainment streamer, Shudder, which will debut the...
Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz star Frost play an erratic cab driver, with Last Night In Soho’s Synnøve Karlsen and The Colour Room’s Luke Norris playing couple who find their jovial black cab driver is not taking them home. Trapped on a desolate, supposedly haunted road, they are faced with their captor’s true intentions.
Sony Pictures Television and Stolen Pictures are co-producing alongside AMC Networks’ genre entertainment streamer, Shudder, which will debut the...
- 5/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
If police drama remains the bedrock of British TV commissions, with 2022 having welcomed crime series Karen Pirie, Marlow, Magpie Murders, The Responder, Sherwood and many more, broadcasters also gave us a glittering seam of new fantasy and horror. Last year saw a host of new British supernatural and sci-fi series, from Joe Barton’s sci-fi action-thriller The Lazarus Project and the criminally since-cancelled YA Netflix fantasy The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, BBC Three teen horror Red Rose, Sky dark comedy The Baby, as well as a new telling of John Wyndham’s spooky children classic The Midwich Cuckoos.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
- 1/3/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Among the detective dramas and high-stakes thrillers due to arrive on British television in the next year or so, there are a clutch of sci-fi, supernatural and horror shows also coming our way. April saw the release of Sky One original Intergalactic – the story of a wrongly imprisoned galactic pilot who breaks out of space jail with a gang of other high-security female prisoners – and Netflix has ordered fantasy novel adaptations Half Bad, Cuckoo Song, Lockwood & Co. and The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – respectively, tales of witches, supernatural pacts, ghost-hunters, and a woman who jumps between bodies in her quest to solve a murder mystery. Coming to terrestrial TV, there’s Life After Life and The Three, stories about living multiple versions of the same life, and the miraculous child survivors of a mysterious plane crash.
On top of that, there’s plenty of true crime, thrillers, a new...
On top of that, there’s plenty of true crime, thrillers, a new...
- 6/29/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Born To Kill - 4 Part Drama For World Productions & Channel 4
A psychological thriller about a teenage serial killer called Sam who lives in a suburban town, battling with his violent urges at the same time as falling in love with the new girl at school Chrissy who may just scupper his twisted plans... or is it too late?
Director: Bruce Goodison
Exec Producer: Jake Lushington
Location: Cardiff
Overall Shoot: 7th November 2016 - 3rd Feb 2017 - (must be available for this period)
Looking For 3 Young Actors - Playing Age 15 / 16 - Must Be Over Licensing Age (So 16 Before 1St Sept 2016 And Must Not Be Older Than 21)
This Is A One Off Drama So Does Not Require Options For Further Series.
Please do not submit yourself if you have been previously seen for this project, but happy to receive another submission if you were not seen before.
Please send a CV and...
A psychological thriller about a teenage serial killer called Sam who lives in a suburban town, battling with his violent urges at the same time as falling in love with the new girl at school Chrissy who may just scupper his twisted plans... or is it too late?
Director: Bruce Goodison
Exec Producer: Jake Lushington
Location: Cardiff
Overall Shoot: 7th November 2016 - 3rd Feb 2017 - (must be available for this period)
Looking For 3 Young Actors - Playing Age 15 / 16 - Must Be Over Licensing Age (So 16 Before 1St Sept 2016 And Must Not Be Older Than 21)
This Is A One Off Drama So Does Not Require Options For Further Series.
Please do not submit yourself if you have been previously seen for this project, but happy to receive another submission if you were not seen before.
Please send a CV and...
- 8/30/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Born To Kill
Closing Date For Submission – 23Rd March 2016
Written by Tracey Malone & Kate Ashfield.
Born to Kill is a 4 part thriller about a 15 year old boy called Sam whose fallen in love with a new girl at school Chrissy But Sam is hiding something…..psychopathic urges. This series will have its audience on the edge of their seats, and question how we can like someone so much when we know what he is capable of.
Production Co: World Productions For Channel 4
Exec Producer : Jake Lushington
Director: Bruce Goodison
Producer : Nick Pitt
Shooting Location : Cardiff
New Overall Shoot Dates : 4th June – 14th August 2016
Casting Details – The majority of first round auditions, workshops and all the recalls will be in London, but we will also be coming to other cities including Cardiff, Nottingham and Manchester.
Please email recent photo (just one) and a CV if you have one to office@danieledwardscasting.
Closing Date For Submission – 23Rd March 2016
Written by Tracey Malone & Kate Ashfield.
Born to Kill is a 4 part thriller about a 15 year old boy called Sam whose fallen in love with a new girl at school Chrissy But Sam is hiding something…..psychopathic urges. This series will have its audience on the edge of their seats, and question how we can like someone so much when we know what he is capable of.
Production Co: World Productions For Channel 4
Exec Producer : Jake Lushington
Director: Bruce Goodison
Producer : Nick Pitt
Shooting Location : Cardiff
New Overall Shoot Dates : 4th June – 14th August 2016
Casting Details – The majority of first round auditions, workshops and all the recalls will be in London, but we will also be coming to other cities including Cardiff, Nottingham and Manchester.
Please email recent photo (just one) and a CV if you have one to office@danieledwardscasting.
- 3/9/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The first Media Production Show will take place in London June 9-10 with a host of top industry brands attending.
The inaugural Media Production Show, hosted by Media Business Insight, will host brands including Pinewood Studios, Cinecitta Studios, Canon and Panasonic and industry such as Tony Jordan (Red Planet Pictures), Julia Stannard (producer) and Hamish Hamilton (director).
Taking place between June 9-10 at the Business Design Centre in Islington more than 70 exhibitors will showcase the latest products and services while key industry will speak at the event to share ideas, techniques and plans for the future.
Event director Charlotte Wheeler reveals more about what visitors can expect…
Who should attend The Media Production Show and why?
Anyone who works in film and wants to learn more about making the best content across the globe should not miss this event.
Technology has had a huge impact on the creative process of film-making and the re-emergence of using film to...
The inaugural Media Production Show, hosted by Media Business Insight, will host brands including Pinewood Studios, Cinecitta Studios, Canon and Panasonic and industry such as Tony Jordan (Red Planet Pictures), Julia Stannard (producer) and Hamish Hamilton (director).
Taking place between June 9-10 at the Business Design Centre in Islington more than 70 exhibitors will showcase the latest products and services while key industry will speak at the event to share ideas, techniques and plans for the future.
Event director Charlotte Wheeler reveals more about what visitors can expect…
Who should attend The Media Production Show and why?
Anyone who works in film and wants to learn more about making the best content across the globe should not miss this event.
Technology has had a huge impact on the creative process of film-making and the re-emergence of using film to...
- 3/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Kiran Sonia Sawar stars as Salma, a 17 year old girl who is the victim of a so-called "honour" killing at the hands of her father in a new BBC Three factual-based drama Murdered By My Father, due to air online later this month.
Murdered By My Father follows the renowned success of BBC Three’s bold dramas based on real-life testimonies, including the critically acclaimed, BAFTA-award-winning Murdered By My Boyfriend and also Don’t Take My Baby.
Inspired by real events, Murdered By My Father is directed by multi-award-winning director Bruce Goodison and written by new screenwriter Vinay Patel, and tells the shocking story of how family love and duty can be turned to violence and murder.
Kiran Sonia Sawar (represented by Polly's Agency) is a graduate of Oxford School of Drama and has previously appeared in American crime series Legends and the BBC’s Holby City.
Salma’s love interest,...
Murdered By My Father follows the renowned success of BBC Three’s bold dramas based on real-life testimonies, including the critically acclaimed, BAFTA-award-winning Murdered By My Boyfriend and also Don’t Take My Baby.
Inspired by real events, Murdered By My Father is directed by multi-award-winning director Bruce Goodison and written by new screenwriter Vinay Patel, and tells the shocking story of how family love and duty can be turned to violence and murder.
Kiran Sonia Sawar (represented by Polly's Agency) is a graduate of Oxford School of Drama and has previously appeared in American crime series Legends and the BBC’s Holby City.
Salma’s love interest,...
- 3/3/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Other winners include 20,000 Days on Earth.
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
- 11/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆ Bruce Goodison's impressive feature Leave to Remain (2013) confronts the issue of teenage asylum seekers struggling to adapt to life in London and dealing with past trauma as they wait for their permanent leave to remain. In Britain, unaccompanied minors are granted temporary asylum and are placed in foster homes or shelters. But when they reach eighteen, their cases are reassessed and they live in limbo as they await the court's decision which can take months, or even years.
- 9/28/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Set to screen at Tiff's Next Wave series next month, is director Bruce Goodison's drama "Leave to Remain," which is described as a provocative coming of age drama about young people cut loose from society because they live in the UK as asylum seekers. In the UK, when an asylum seeker seeks leave to stay in the UK, its called "leave to remain," hence the title of the film; further, this can be anything from a day to 3 years, and comes with restrictions on being able to work and getting an education. In the film, 3 teenagers forced to leave everything behind, learn to live alone in a hostile environment, fighting to survive, as they form a unique and...
- 1/21/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The world’s biggest film festival for children and young people will include preview screenings of The Imitation Game and Disney doc Bears [pictured]; Q&A’s with Harry Potter’s David Yates, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter and Selfish Giant director Clio Bernard.
Into Film Festival (Nov 4-21), the world’s biggest such event for children and young people, is preparing to launch its 2014 edition with a raft of previews, filmmaker Q&As and workshops on how to break into the industry.
Formerly known as the National Youth Film Festival, the programme anticipates 300,000 attendees aged 5-19 - up from 200,000 last year - at screenings and events across the UK and is funded by Cinema First and supported by the BFI through National Lottery money.
The programme will roll out across more than 520 cinemas across all the major chains and in a range of venues across the UK. Autism friendly screenings and, for sensory-impaired...
Into Film Festival (Nov 4-21), the world’s biggest such event for children and young people, is preparing to launch its 2014 edition with a raft of previews, filmmaker Q&As and workshops on how to break into the industry.
Formerly known as the National Youth Film Festival, the programme anticipates 300,000 attendees aged 5-19 - up from 200,000 last year - at screenings and events across the UK and is funded by Cinema First and supported by the BFI through National Lottery money.
The programme will roll out across more than 520 cinemas across all the major chains and in a range of venues across the UK. Autism friendly screenings and, for sensory-impaired...
- 9/19/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
ITV has announced a new six-part World War II drama series.
Created and written by Simon Block and given the working title Jambusters, the drama follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community.
"We're really delighted to have commissioned Jambusters," said ITV director of drama Steve November.
"Great writing from Simon has given Julie Summers's wonderful book a fictional life. The women are real and engaging, and have fantastic spirit and attitude.
With World War II on the horizon, multiple strands of plot interweave to create a period drama full of jeopardy and intrigue, but also great humanity and modernity."
Executive producer Francis Hopkinson added: "Thanks to Simon Block's brilliant script, inspired by Julie Summers's book, this series will take a fresh look at life on the Home Front, showing both the tragedies and the triumphs, and offering some wonderful roles for Britain's top actresses.
Created and written by Simon Block and given the working title Jambusters, the drama follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community.
"We're really delighted to have commissioned Jambusters," said ITV director of drama Steve November.
"Great writing from Simon has given Julie Summers's wonderful book a fictional life. The women are real and engaging, and have fantastic spirit and attitude.
With World War II on the horizon, multiple strands of plot interweave to create a period drama full of jeopardy and intrigue, but also great humanity and modernity."
Executive producer Francis Hopkinson added: "Thanks to Simon Block's brilliant script, inspired by Julie Summers's book, this series will take a fresh look at life on the Home Front, showing both the tragedies and the triumphs, and offering some wonderful roles for Britain's top actresses.
- 7/1/2014
- Digital Spy
★★★☆☆Immigration has been a hot topic of late, with the fluidity of British borders given a great deal of political capital. It's into this atmosphere that the feature debut of documentary man Bruce Goodison arrives in cinemas, delving into the somewhat unexplored subject of teenage asylum seekers in the UK. Part of an ongoing project to provide film industry skills to kids just like those appearing in his film, Leave to Remain (2013) is based upon true stories told first-hand to the director. They prove the basis for a heartfelt, but flawed, attempt to tackle the legitimate issues faced by the thousands of teachers arriving on our shores in search of a new life each year.
- 6/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
From director Bruce Goodison (Our War, My Murder) comes a new film titled Leave to Remain, a provocative coming-of-age drama about young people cut loose from society because they live in the UK as asylum seekers. In the UK, when an asylum seeker seeks leave to stay in the UK, its called "leave to remain," hence the title of the film; Further, as the film's website states, this can be anything from a day to 3 years, and comes with restrictions on being able to work and getting an education. Here's the film's brief synop: 3 teenagers forced to leave everything behind, learn to live alone in a hostile country. That country is the UK. Fighting for survival they form a unique and...
- 5/22/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
World premiere of Dermaphoria, starring The Vampire Diaries’ Joseph Morgan and Ron Perlman, to open 13th edition of the London festival.
The line-up for the East End Film Festival (June 13-25) has been revealed.
The 13th edition of the festival - which runs for 13 days - will open on Friday 13th June with the world premiere of Dermaphoria. The Us film is the second feature from Ross Clarke, the east London-based filmmaker and DJ who directed homeless documentary Skid Row in 2007 and co-founded music festival Lovebox.
Based on a novel by Craid Clevenger, Dermaphoria follows an experimental chemist who wakes up in a New Orleans jail with amnesia, accused of arson and links to a drug-manufacturing ring. The cast includes Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Walton Goggins (The Shield), Anwan Glover (The Wire) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy).
Football focus
The festival, which coincides with the World Cup in Brazil, will welcome...
The line-up for the East End Film Festival (June 13-25) has been revealed.
The 13th edition of the festival - which runs for 13 days - will open on Friday 13th June with the world premiere of Dermaphoria. The Us film is the second feature from Ross Clarke, the east London-based filmmaker and DJ who directed homeless documentary Skid Row in 2007 and co-founded music festival Lovebox.
Based on a novel by Craid Clevenger, Dermaphoria follows an experimental chemist who wakes up in a New Orleans jail with amnesia, accused of arson and links to a drug-manufacturing ring. The cast includes Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Walton Goggins (The Shield), Anwan Glover (The Wire) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy).
Football focus
The festival, which coincides with the World Cup in Brazil, will welcome...
- 5/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The East End Film Festival returns to the city of London this summer celebrating its thirteenth year, and running in the height of the World Cup, Director Alison Poltock says she’s determined to make it the festival’s best year ever.
Opening on Friday, 13th June, the festival will run in East London for thirteen days, playing host to over 100 feature narrative and documentary films, and close to 100 shorts, the majority of which will be either World, UK, or London premieres.
Ross Clarke’s sophomore feature, Dermaphormia, will kick events off as the Opening Night Gala selection. Clarke has lined up an impressive cast for his first narrative film, following his award-winning documentary Skid Row, led by Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Nicole Badaan, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), Lucius Falick, Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Anwan Glover (The Wire), and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy). The crime-thriller centres on an experimental...
Opening on Friday, 13th June, the festival will run in East London for thirteen days, playing host to over 100 feature narrative and documentary films, and close to 100 shorts, the majority of which will be either World, UK, or London premieres.
Ross Clarke’s sophomore feature, Dermaphormia, will kick events off as the Opening Night Gala selection. Clarke has lined up an impressive cast for his first narrative film, following his award-winning documentary Skid Row, led by Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Nicole Badaan, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), Lucius Falick, Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Anwan Glover (The Wire), and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy). The crime-thriller centres on an experimental...
- 5/7/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
TV documentary filmmaker director Bruce Goodison spent three years making this film with real asylum seekers to gain a more authentic voice to the immigration story. He also trained them in filmmaking so they could tell the stories from their perspective, within a fictional context (co-written by Goodison and Charlotte Colbert). The result is a more spontaneous work than usual that is a little rough around the edges but altogether unique.
The three stories the film centres are based on a collection of several real-life experiences of unaccompanied minors coming to the UK and entering the asylum system: Zizidi (Yasmin Mwanza, debuting) from Guinea, who was circumcised as a child and suffered a stillbirth and a botched caesarean, was brutalised by her husband and his friends for trying to flee; Confident Omar (Noof Ousellam), the longest-staying refugee, who suffered at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan; Finally, Abdul (Zarrien Masieh,...
The three stories the film centres are based on a collection of several real-life experiences of unaccompanied minors coming to the UK and entering the asylum system: Zizidi (Yasmin Mwanza, debuting) from Guinea, who was circumcised as a child and suffered a stillbirth and a botched caesarean, was brutalised by her husband and his friends for trying to flee; Confident Omar (Noof Ousellam), the longest-staying refugee, who suffered at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan; Finally, Abdul (Zarrien Masieh,...
- 10/20/2013
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★☆☆ Bruce Goodison's feature debut Leave to Remain (2013) imbues the meticulous rigour of a documentary with the conventional methodology of a narrative drama to create an unusual deviation on the coming-of-age tale. A film about children thrust into adulthood thanks to their status as asylum seekers, Goodison looks to give a voice to the thousands of young refugees currently fighting their case in the courtrooms of the United Kingdom. Leave to Remain takes the perspective of a young Afghan boy whose arrival at a local refuge home (run by Toby Jones' English teacher) sets of a fateful chain of events.
This tale of hope, desperation and deplorable discrimination allows us to reinterpret the familiar through unacquainted eyes. Starring recognisable British actors like Jones alongside bona fide refugees, Goodison allows the pupils of his film academy to articulate themselves through their performances, giving these young teens a chance to regale...
This tale of hope, desperation and deplorable discrimination allows us to reinterpret the familiar through unacquainted eyes. Starring recognisable British actors like Jones alongside bona fide refugees, Goodison allows the pupils of his film academy to articulate themselves through their performances, giving these young teens a chance to regale...
- 10/11/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 57th BFI London Film Festival line-up has officially been revealed, and it is led by a slew of incredibly promising films, many of which have already been buzzing on the festival circuit, and a number of which will be making their debuts here in London.
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From the director Bruce Goodison (Our War, My Murder) comes a new film titled Leave to Remain, which is described as a "provocative coming of age drama" about young people cut loose from society because they live in the UK as asylum seekers. In the UK, when an asylum seeker seeks leave to stay in the UK, its called "leave to remain," hence the title of the film; further, as the film's website states, this can be anything from a day to 3 years, and comes with restrictions on being able to work and getting an education. 3 teenagers forced to leave everything behind, learn to live alone in a hostile country. That country is the UK. Fighting for survival they form a unique and...
- 6/26/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A total of 12 projects selected for training addressing the changing face of distribution.Scroll down for full list of projects
Film London has revealed the 12 projects participating in Audience on Demand, the training and mentorship programme addressing the changing face of feature film distribution.
Details of the successful film-makers and projects were unveiled at The Future of Independent Distribution event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which featured a case study on Film London Microwave’s Borrowed Time, currently preparing for a self funded direct distribution UK release on August 16.
Audience on Demand, funded by Creative Skillset and run in partnership with Creative England, is a three-month pilot programme that mixes classroom and one-on-one sessions alongside dedicated mentoring from top industry experts.
For emerging UK talent with a completed first or second feature, a key aspect of the programme is a marketing and distribution plan created by Iris Lamprecht (Film Tiki). This enables the participating teams to develop...
Film London has revealed the 12 projects participating in Audience on Demand, the training and mentorship programme addressing the changing face of feature film distribution.
Details of the successful film-makers and projects were unveiled at The Future of Independent Distribution event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which featured a case study on Film London Microwave’s Borrowed Time, currently preparing for a self funded direct distribution UK release on August 16.
Audience on Demand, funded by Creative Skillset and run in partnership with Creative England, is a three-month pilot programme that mixes classroom and one-on-one sessions alongside dedicated mentoring from top industry experts.
For emerging UK talent with a completed first or second feature, a key aspect of the programme is a marketing and distribution plan created by Iris Lamprecht (Film Tiki). This enables the participating teams to develop...
- 6/24/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Pop diva, Lady Gaga, has had to cancel her tour due to a hip injury. The singer has been left in intense pain after suffering a labral tear of the right hip, which will require surgery to fix: “Going into surgery now. Thank you so much for sending me love and support. I will be dreaming of you," Gaga tweeted this morning.
Alt-j, three time Brit-nominated and Mercury award winners, will be broadening their skills to include movies scores, THR reports. The talented group will be collaborating with director Bruce Goodison to compose a soundtrack for movie Leave To Remain starring Toby Jones.
Christian Bale is set to star in a based on true-life movie about the three crews who tried to climb Everest in 1996 but who got caught in a freak storm. As a result eight climbers were killed. The role of Bale has not yet been revealed but...
Alt-j, three time Brit-nominated and Mercury award winners, will be broadening their skills to include movies scores, THR reports. The talented group will be collaborating with director Bruce Goodison to compose a soundtrack for movie Leave To Remain starring Toby Jones.
Christian Bale is set to star in a based on true-life movie about the three crews who tried to climb Everest in 1996 but who got caught in a freak storm. As a result eight climbers were killed. The role of Bale has not yet been revealed but...
- 2/20/2013
- by reelz staff
- Reelzchannel.com
London – 2012 Mercury award winning band and triple Brit nominees Alt-j is to collaborate with director Bruce Goodison to compose a soundtrack for the movie Leave to Remain. The movie, featuring Toby Jones alongside an ensemble cast of emerging talent, details the story of a young Afghan boy who arrives in London and follows him and a group of friends and his fight for a right to stay in the U.K. Goodison approached the band after penning the script to his film while listening to the band’s debut album Awesome Wave. It went on to be certified
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- 2/20/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's nigh-on obligatory for any article concerning indie rock quartet Alt-j to explain why they're called Alt-j, so let's get it out of the way early: they're called Alt-j because pressing just that on a Mac keyboard gives you a ∆. That's important to know because Empire can exclusively reveal that ∆ are going to score the upcoming Toby Jones movie Leave To Remain. Listeners to the Empire Podcast will already know a bit about Leave To Remain, after Mr. Jones popped into the podcast studio recently and discussed his excitement about the coming of age asylum seeker drama.Directed by Bruce Goodison, the BAFTA-winning documentarian behind 10 Days To War, Leave To Remain is the result of several years of workshopping with real-life young asylum seekers. Toby Jones will play an asylum officer, with three unknowns as the three young asylum seekers that he works with.A boost to the film's publicity...
- 2/19/2013
- EmpireOnline
White Bird in a Blizzard
Angela Bassett and Mark Indelicato ("Ugly Betty") will join Shailene Woodley, Gabourey Sidibe, Shiloh Fernandez, Eva Green and Christopher Meloni in Gregg Araki's "White Bird in a Blizzard."
The story follows a troubled young woman whose life is upended following the disappearance of her mother. Indelicato will portray an outcast in a middle class school, Bassett a doctor. [Source: Variety and Facebook]
Leave to Remain
Toby Jones ("Captain America: The First Avenger," "The Girl") has joined the cast of Bruce Goodison's coming-of-age drama "Leave to Remain" which is currently shooting in London.
The story follows a group of teenagers from various countries who all thrown in together as they try to start a new life. [Source: Screen Daily]
Blowtorch
Jared Abrahamson ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days") will join Lois Robbins, Kathy Najimy and Fat Joe in Kevin Breslin's indie movie "Blowtorch" at Me3 Prods. Shooting kicks off this week in Brooklyn.
Angela Bassett and Mark Indelicato ("Ugly Betty") will join Shailene Woodley, Gabourey Sidibe, Shiloh Fernandez, Eva Green and Christopher Meloni in Gregg Araki's "White Bird in a Blizzard."
The story follows a troubled young woman whose life is upended following the disappearance of her mother. Indelicato will portray an outcast in a middle class school, Bassett a doctor. [Source: Variety and Facebook]
Leave to Remain
Toby Jones ("Captain America: The First Avenger," "The Girl") has joined the cast of Bruce Goodison's coming-of-age drama "Leave to Remain" which is currently shooting in London.
The story follows a group of teenagers from various countries who all thrown in together as they try to start a new life. [Source: Screen Daily]
Blowtorch
Jared Abrahamson ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days") will join Lois Robbins, Kathy Najimy and Fat Joe in Kevin Breslin's indie movie "Blowtorch" at Me3 Prods. Shooting kicks off this week in Brooklyn.
- 11/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
What is Casting Couch? It’s a round-up of Hollywood casting news, not one of those porn videos where a 19-year-old gets exploited in a grimy-looking office. Move along, perv. Now that we’ve got all of those live action Snow White movies out of the way, it makes sense that we would move down the fairy tale lineup and start seeing a rash of new Cinderella projects popping up. And, if Disney has their way, their Mark Romanek-directed Cinderella script from The Devil Wears Prada scribe Aline Brosh McKenna will be the hit that starts the trend. They’re trying to get casting for the film off on the right foot with the acquisition of a big name, as Deadline reports that the House of Mouse is in serious negotiations with Cate Blanchett to come on board to play a character called Lady Tremaine, known in some circles as the wicked stepmother. Given...
- 11/28/2012
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
While he deals with the déjà vu of someone getting more attention for playing the same role at the same time (competing Alfred Hitchcock projects instead of Truman Capote this time), we doubt Toby Jones is all that worried. He has plenty to keep him busy, including joining the cast of Bruce Goodison’s Leave To Remain.Goodison is switching from documentaries to fiction for this one, which will mix professional actors like Jones with young migrants and refugees for a coming-of-age tale.The plot will follow a group of teenagers from various countries who are looking to build a new life in London. Goodison researched the film for three years before putting the cast together, and he’s now shooting in the capital.Before we get to see the finished product, however, Jones will be returning to a very different capital – the Capitol – for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,...
- 11/28/2012
- EmpireOnline
Toby Jones has joined the cast of Bruce Goodison's "Leave to Remain," a coming-of-age story centering on a group of teenagers who have escaped their respective countries and banded together in a hidden underworld of London. Principal photography is underway. The film is the debut feature of Goodison, who spent over three years researching the lives of young people seeking sanctuary in order to undertake the project. The young cast is a mix of professional actors and non-actors from migrant and refugee backgrounds. A shortlist of individuals was invited to a refugee organization workshops in September, at which point the final casting decisions were made. Jones was recently seen donning prosthetic jowls as Alfred Hitchcock in the tepidly reviewed "The Girl" for HBO. He's also on the festival circuit with "Berberian Sound Studio," a psychological thriller set in a 1970s Giallo studio.
- 11/28/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
From the director Bruce Goodison (Our War, My Murder) comes a new film titled Leave to Remain, which is described as a provocative coming of age drama about young people cut loose from society because they live in the UK as asylum seekers. In the UK, when an asylum seeker seeks leave to stay in the UK, its called "leave to remain," hence the title of the film; further, as the film's website states, this can be anything from a day to 3 years, and comes with restrictions on being able to work and getting an education. 3 teenagers forced to leave everything behind, learn to live alone in a hostile country. That country is the UK. Fighting for survival they form a...
- 11/23/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday (April 24) the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries "Appropriate Adult," which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
- 4/24/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
John Boyega, star of Attack The Block, leads the cast in My Murder, an innovative factual drama which tells the true story of Shakilus Townsend who's chance meeting with a young girl leads to murder, as he is engulfed by a web of lies.
16-year-old Shakilus was led to his death by 15-year-old Samantha Joseph who he thought of as his girlfriend, in a 2008 murder which became known as the honey trap killing.
Newcomer Simona Zivkovska plays Samantha with Malachi Kirby as her ex-boyfriend Danny McLean.
Written by Levi David Addai (Oxford St, Micah), directed by Bruce Goodison, and produced by BBC Current Affairs, it is a raw portrait of young people’s hopes and fears as they struggle to grow up on Britain’s streets.
The film sees the lives of the three young people collide with terrible consequences. It charts how Samantha's lies lead Shakilus into the lethal world of her gang-leader boyfriend,...
16-year-old Shakilus was led to his death by 15-year-old Samantha Joseph who he thought of as his girlfriend, in a 2008 murder which became known as the honey trap killing.
Newcomer Simona Zivkovska plays Samantha with Malachi Kirby as her ex-boyfriend Danny McLean.
Written by Levi David Addai (Oxford St, Micah), directed by Bruce Goodison, and produced by BBC Current Affairs, it is a raw portrait of young people’s hopes and fears as they struggle to grow up on Britain’s streets.
The film sees the lives of the three young people collide with terrible consequences. It charts how Samantha's lies lead Shakilus into the lethal world of her gang-leader boyfriend,...
- 3/16/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Cologne, Germany -- The Cologne Conference, Germany's largest TV festival/confab, kicked off Wednesday night with a gala screening of the BBC's "10 Days to War," an award-winning docudrama on the countdown to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The film's mix of hard fact with dramatic technique, its unique format -- with eight stand-alone episodes of 12 minutes each -- and its impressive cast, which includes Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea and Juliet Stevenson, were some of the topics covered in an exclusive Q&A between "10 Days" producer Colin Barr, director Bruce Goodison and The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider.
Barr detailed the phenomenal speed at which the production was made -- five months from pitching the original idea to the finished series.
Financing came through after Branagh agreed to play Col. Tim Collins, an Irish commander who gives his men a "tread softly" speech on the eve of the invasion.
"The speech was...
The film's mix of hard fact with dramatic technique, its unique format -- with eight stand-alone episodes of 12 minutes each -- and its impressive cast, which includes Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea and Juliet Stevenson, were some of the topics covered in an exclusive Q&A between "10 Days" producer Colin Barr, director Bruce Goodison and The Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider.
Barr detailed the phenomenal speed at which the production was made -- five months from pitching the original idea to the finished series.
Financing came through after Branagh agreed to play Col. Tim Collins, an Irish commander who gives his men a "tread softly" speech on the eve of the invasion.
"The speech was...
- 10/9/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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