We sat own with the cast of Paramount+’s The Doll Factory tio talk about their new show. Leading the cast as Iris is Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) is taxidermist Silas, Mirren Mack is Rose, Iris’s twin sister and George Webster is painter Louis.
The series also stars Pippa Haywood (Magpie Murders), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen), newcomer Reece Kenwyne-Mpudzi, Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone), Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Laurie Kynaston (The Sandman), Jim Caesar (The Witcher), Akshay Khanna (Chloe), Aysha Kala (The Undeclared War) and Nell Hudson (Outlander).
The Doll Factory is out on Paramount+ right now. Linda Marric asks the questions.
The Doll Factory Cast Interviews
Plot:
London, 1851. Iris paints dolls for a living, alongside her twin sister, Rose, but dreams of becoming an artist. By night, she secretly paints herself naked, honing her craft. Silas is a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations.
The series also stars Pippa Haywood (Magpie Murders), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen), newcomer Reece Kenwyne-Mpudzi, Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone), Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Laurie Kynaston (The Sandman), Jim Caesar (The Witcher), Akshay Khanna (Chloe), Aysha Kala (The Undeclared War) and Nell Hudson (Outlander).
The Doll Factory is out on Paramount+ right now. Linda Marric asks the questions.
The Doll Factory Cast Interviews
Plot:
London, 1851. Iris paints dolls for a living, alongside her twin sister, Rose, but dreams of becoming an artist. By night, she secretly paints herself naked, honing her craft. Silas is a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations.
- 12/15/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Following his BIFA nominated feature films Tucked (2019) and Justine (2021), writer/director Jamie Patterson’s latest continues his look into the untold stories of those on the margins in his hometown of Brighton.
Starring up and coming talent George Webster (Disney+ series Wedding Season and upcoming AppleTV+ series Masters of the Air and Paramount+ series The Doll Factory) and Skye Lourie, and featuring Alice Lowe, Joe Wilkinson, April Pearson, Jordan Stephens, Joss Porter, Benedict Garrett and Patrick Bergin, God‘s Petting You is a darkly twisted comedy charged with erotic thriller energy in its exploration of the depths and depravity of the Brighton underworld.
Synopsis:
At a self-help group, cheeky young Charlie, a down on his luck heroin addict, falls in love with the ravishing ‘Tattoo Girl’, a struggling sex addict. Teaming up they hatch a hair-brained scheme to steal a small fortune from a criminally inclined porn star, a plan that’s guaranteed to fail.
Starring up and coming talent George Webster (Disney+ series Wedding Season and upcoming AppleTV+ series Masters of the Air and Paramount+ series The Doll Factory) and Skye Lourie, and featuring Alice Lowe, Joe Wilkinson, April Pearson, Jordan Stephens, Joss Porter, Benedict Garrett and Patrick Bergin, God‘s Petting You is a darkly twisted comedy charged with erotic thriller energy in its exploration of the depths and depravity of the Brighton underworld.
Synopsis:
At a self-help group, cheeky young Charlie, a down on his luck heroin addict, falls in love with the ravishing ‘Tattoo Girl’, a struggling sex addict. Teaming up they hatch a hair-brained scheme to steal a small fortune from a criminally inclined porn star, a plan that’s guaranteed to fail.
- 6/20/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Genndy Tartakovsky’s work brilliantly reinforces the mantra of “less is more.” Samurai Jack uses the trials of a time-traveling samurai to create an aura of loneliness and desperation, while Primal explores the unexpectedly moving friendship between a dinosaur and a caveman. More broadly, Tartakovsky’s focused ambition lends itself well to the at once mythic and intimate odysseys that he takes viewers on.
Tartakovsky’s new animated series, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, centers on a group of magical beings—sorceress Melinda (Hazel Doupe), cosmic monk Seng (Demari Hunte), warrior elf Eldrid (Tom Milligan), and steam-powered robot Copernicus—tasked with fending off a monstrous evil through the ages, which means that they’ll need physical hosts to travel through time. So begins a dogged battle, with host body after host body thrown at an ageless villain that doesn’t require flesh to wreak havoc. Oh, and there’s one other complication: This time,...
Tartakovsky’s new animated series, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, centers on a group of magical beings—sorceress Melinda (Hazel Doupe), cosmic monk Seng (Demari Hunte), warrior elf Eldrid (Tom Milligan), and steam-powered robot Copernicus—tasked with fending off a monstrous evil through the ages, which means that they’ll need physical hosts to travel through time. So begins a dogged battle, with host body after host body thrown at an ageless villain that doesn’t require flesh to wreak havoc. Oh, and there’s one other complication: This time,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Hayden Mears
- Slant Magazine
Written and directed by British filmmaker Jamie Patterson, God’s Petting You is a dark, twisted comedy about two addicts joining forces to steal a small fortune from a wealthy porn star. One happens to be addicted to heroin, the other to sex, oh – and they also happen to find each other attractive, so what’s the worst thing that could happen?
Will it work or will it all crumble and fall?
Set in Patterson’s hometown of Brighton, the film’s atmosphere is dark and gloomy throughout, with no real hope of a happy ending. Our main character Charlie, the heroin addict (George Webster), seems to be yet another addict fighting his way for the next high, with few other cares or consequences in the world. He’s stuck in a dead-end job in insurance with a boss called Mark (Joss Porter), who is borderline inappropriate and batshit crazy towards Charlie,...
Will it work or will it all crumble and fall?
Set in Patterson’s hometown of Brighton, the film’s atmosphere is dark and gloomy throughout, with no real hope of a happy ending. Our main character Charlie, the heroin addict (George Webster), seems to be yet another addict fighting his way for the next high, with few other cares or consequences in the world. He’s stuck in a dead-end job in insurance with a boss called Mark (Joss Porter), who is borderline inappropriate and batshit crazy towards Charlie,...
- 4/24/2023
- by Alex Clement
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Celebrating the talent behind-the-scenes the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023 in London honored House of the Dragon and This is Going to Hurt with each winning three trophies.
The Game of Thrones prequel won in three categories: Amanda Knight, Barrie Gower and Rosalia Culora for Make-Up & Hair Design; Alastair Sirkett, Doug Cooper, Martin Seeley, Paula Fairfield, Tim Hands and Adele Fletcher for Sound: Fiction; and Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, Mpc and Pixomodo for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
Medical drama This is Going to Hurt also won in three categories: first-time winner Adam Kay won a BAFTA for Writer: Drama, for the series based upon his memoir as a junior doctor; Selina MacArthur, also a first-time winner, won for Editing Fiction; and Nina Gold and Martin Ware won for Scripted Casting.
The ceremony hosted by Mel Giedroyc featured celebrity guest presenters like Adil Ray, Adrian Lester, Charlene White,...
The Game of Thrones prequel won in three categories: Amanda Knight, Barrie Gower and Rosalia Culora for Make-Up & Hair Design; Alastair Sirkett, Doug Cooper, Martin Seeley, Paula Fairfield, Tim Hands and Adele Fletcher for Sound: Fiction; and Angus Bickerton, Nikeah Forde, Asa Shoul, Mike Dawson, Mpc and Pixomodo for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects.
Medical drama This is Going to Hurt also won in three categories: first-time winner Adam Kay won a BAFTA for Writer: Drama, for the series based upon his memoir as a junior doctor; Selina MacArthur, also a first-time winner, won for Editing Fiction; and Nina Gold and Martin Ware won for Scripted Casting.
The ceremony hosted by Mel Giedroyc featured celebrity guest presenters like Adil Ray, Adrian Lester, Charlene White,...
- 4/23/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s hard to root for the two feckless young lovers thumbing their noses at therapy, whose trouble with sex and drugs is portrayed as hedonistic fun
This mostly unamusing British comedy sets off with a framing device that sees heroin addict Charlie (George Webster) explaining recent events in his life to a rapt therapist (Alice Lowe). Clever-clogs viewers might assume that this is the setup for some unreliable-narrator shenanigans and a twist or two at the end, and you’d be right. But the twist – more of an ugly snarl – is unearned by the setup, and feels like the product of lazy screenwriting, devoid of psychological insight. That sort of fits the cheerful, jejune amorality of this film, which treats addiction as if it’s all a bit of a lark and that the therapeutic community – like the woman who runs Charlie’s self-help group – is way too judgmental,...
This mostly unamusing British comedy sets off with a framing device that sees heroin addict Charlie (George Webster) explaining recent events in his life to a rapt therapist (Alice Lowe). Clever-clogs viewers might assume that this is the setup for some unreliable-narrator shenanigans and a twist or two at the end, and you’d be right. But the twist – more of an ugly snarl – is unearned by the setup, and feels like the product of lazy screenwriting, devoid of psychological insight. That sort of fits the cheerful, jejune amorality of this film, which treats addiction as if it’s all a bit of a lark and that the therapeutic community – like the woman who runs Charlie’s self-help group – is way too judgmental,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The cast for the upcoming U.K. original series The Doll Factory has been announced, with Hanna star Esmé Creed-Miles set to lead the Paramount+ drama series. Paramount Global made the announcement on Wednesday, November 8, for the series, which is based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal. In addition to Creed-Miles, who will play Iris, who paints dolls and dreams of becoming an artist, the six-episode drama will star Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People) as taxidermist Silas, Mirren Mack (The Witcher: Blood Origin) as Iris’ twin sister Rose, and George Webster (Wedding Season) as painter Louis. Also joining the cast are Pippa Haywood (Bodyguard), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen), Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone), Saoirse Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Laurie Kynaston (The Sandman), Jim Caesar (The Witcher), Akshay Khanna (Chloe), Aysha Kala (The Undeclared War), Nell Hudson (Outlander), and newcomer Reece Kenwyne-Mpudzi. Adapted for television by playwright Charley Miles,...
- 11/9/2022
- TV Insider
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Paramount Global’s Paramount+ on Wednesday unveiled the cast for upcoming U.K. original series The Doll Factory based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal.
The six-episode hour-long drama, produced by Buccaneer, will star Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna) as Iris, who paints dolls and dreams of becoming an artist, Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People) as Silas, a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations, Mirren Mack (The Witcher: Blood Origin) as Rose, Iris’ twin sister who works alongside her in the doll shop, and George Webster (Wedding Season) as Louis, a painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Also joining the ensemble cast are Pippa Haywood (Bodyguard), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen), newcomer Reece Kenwyne-Mpudzi, Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone), Saoirse Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Laurie Kynaston (The Sandman), Jim Caesar (The Witcher), Akshay Khanna (Chloe), Aysha Kala (The Undeclared War...
Paramount Global’s Paramount+ on Wednesday unveiled the cast for upcoming U.K. original series The Doll Factory based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal.
The six-episode hour-long drama, produced by Buccaneer, will star Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna) as Iris, who paints dolls and dreams of becoming an artist, Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People) as Silas, a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations, Mirren Mack (The Witcher: Blood Origin) as Rose, Iris’ twin sister who works alongside her in the doll shop, and George Webster (Wedding Season) as Louis, a painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Also joining the ensemble cast are Pippa Haywood (Bodyguard), Sharlene Whyte (Stephen), newcomer Reece Kenwyne-Mpudzi, Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone), Saoirse Monica Jackson (Derry Girls), Laurie Kynaston (The Sandman), Jim Caesar (The Witcher), Akshay Khanna (Chloe), Aysha Kala (The Undeclared War...
- 11/9/2022
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount+ has unveiled the cast of its new original series “The Doll Factory” from “Marcella” producers Buccaneer Media.
An adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal, “The Doll Factory” is set in London in 1850 and tells the story of Iris, who paints dolls for a living alongside her twin sister, Rose, and those in their orbit, such as taxidermist Silas, who dreams of finding an item so unique he will be catapulted to fame, and painter Louis, who is searching for his next muse.
When Iris meets Silas, and then Louis, she is offered an opportunity to escape and start a new life. To do so, she must abandon her sister, sacrifice her reputation and launch herself into the unknown. But as Iris’ world expands, a story of dark obsession begins to unfold.
Leading the cast is Esmé Creed-Miles (“Hanna”) as Iris, Éanna Hardwicke (“Normal People”) as Silas,...
An adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal, “The Doll Factory” is set in London in 1850 and tells the story of Iris, who paints dolls for a living alongside her twin sister, Rose, and those in their orbit, such as taxidermist Silas, who dreams of finding an item so unique he will be catapulted to fame, and painter Louis, who is searching for his next muse.
When Iris meets Silas, and then Louis, she is offered an opportunity to escape and start a new life. To do so, she must abandon her sister, sacrifice her reputation and launch herself into the unknown. But as Iris’ world expands, a story of dark obsession begins to unfold.
Leading the cast is Esmé Creed-Miles (“Hanna”) as Iris, Éanna Hardwicke (“Normal People”) as Silas,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Credit “Wedding Season” for not taking the easy opening. It takes a lot of confidence to start up an eight-episode season with an “I object!” moment. It’s how the show introduces us to Stefan (Gavin Drea) one of 2022’s unluckiest characters, and not just because his gambit to break up the wedding of Katie (Rosa Salazar), the woman he loves, is dead on arrival.
His hopes at whisking Katie away for a fairy-tale ending aren’t the only thing that dies that day. At the reception, Katie’s intended Hugo (George Webster) and a number of his family members keel over on top of their chicken/steak/vegetarian option. While she somehow manages to escape unharmed, Stefan is hauled into an interrogation room to share everything he knows about the woman suddenly leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake.
There are glimmers in “Wedding Season” where you...
His hopes at whisking Katie away for a fairy-tale ending aren’t the only thing that dies that day. At the reception, Katie’s intended Hugo (George Webster) and a number of his family members keel over on top of their chicken/steak/vegetarian option. While she somehow manages to escape unharmed, Stefan is hauled into an interrogation room to share everything he knows about the woman suddenly leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake.
There are glimmers in “Wedding Season” where you...
- 9/8/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
At first, Hulu’s “Wedding Season” seems to be a charming enough take on a British “Four Weddings and a Funeral”-style romantic comedy, complete with a hopeless romantic boy, his boisterous friend group, and the enigmatic American girl he falls for the minute he meets her at — where else? — a wedding. But both Oliver Lyttelton’s take on the setup and the American at its center have more up their sleeves than a charming meet-cute. The second that initial layer’s peeled, “Wedding Season” (not to be confused with Netflix’s recent movie of the same name) is off and running in another direction entirely — a murder mystery with roots in the kind of deep corruption that would give Jason Bourne nightmares. Whether or not it all hangs together will be for the audience to decide, with all eight episodes out Sept. 8 on Hulu (but only seven made available...
- 9/8/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ has unveiled the official trailer for its first UK Original series, the rom-com action thriller Wedding Season.
The eight-episode series is genre-busting series telling the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is…
An action-packed romp across the UK and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, all while trying to prove their innocence.
Created and executive produced by up-and-coming screenwriting talent Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”) and Laura Scrivano (“The Lazarus Project”), the series stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi,...
The eight-episode series is genre-busting series telling the story of Katie and Stefan who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair, despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. And no one knows for sure what the truth is…
An action-packed romp across the UK and the US as Katie and Stefan go on the run, all while trying to prove their innocence.
Created and executive produced by up-and-coming screenwriting talent Oliver Lyttelton (“Cheaters”) and directed by George Kane (“Crashing”) and Laura Scrivano (“The Lazarus Project”), the series stars Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea, with Jade Harrison, Jamie Michie, Callie Cooke, Bhav Joshi,...
- 8/12/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Disney+ is giving fans a first look at upcoming U.K. original series “Wedding Season” in a new trailer.
Not to be confused with the recent Netflix film, Disney+’s “Wedding Season” is a “genre busting” eight-part dark comedy that sees a bride’s new family poisoned on the night of her wedding.
The Maze Runner franchise’s Rosa Salazar plays Katie, who meets Stefan (Gavin Drea of “Vikings: Valhalla”) at a wedding. The duo quickly strike up an affair – despite the fact Katie is due to get married to someone else in two months. On the night of her wedding, Katie’s new husband is mysteriously found dead – along with his entire family – and Stefan quickly becomes the main suspect.
Stefan, meanwhile, is wondering whether Katie may be capable of more than just infidelity.
“The series is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the U.S. as...
Not to be confused with the recent Netflix film, Disney+’s “Wedding Season” is a “genre busting” eight-part dark comedy that sees a bride’s new family poisoned on the night of her wedding.
The Maze Runner franchise’s Rosa Salazar plays Katie, who meets Stefan (Gavin Drea of “Vikings: Valhalla”) at a wedding. The duo quickly strike up an affair – despite the fact Katie is due to get married to someone else in two months. On the night of her wedding, Katie’s new husband is mysteriously found dead – along with his entire family – and Stefan quickly becomes the main suspect.
Stefan, meanwhile, is wondering whether Katie may be capable of more than just infidelity.
“The series is an action-packed romp across the U.K. and the U.S. as...
- 8/11/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Heroin addict Charlie (George Webster) has been planning to commit a violent crime. He wants money. He wants revenge. It all began when a young woman turned up at his addiction support group and said she was addicted to sex. He goes into all of this, in great detail, in front of his bemused counsellor. Won’t she feel obliged to report him to the police? Perhaps, but not everything here is what it seems.
Director Jamie Patterson has an established affinity for Brighton’s underworld, for the people on the margins whose stories are not glamorous enough to attract attention most of the time, yet who don’t have enough control over their own lives to lead more conventional narratives. Whilst this one may sound familiar, it’s less a retreading of the familiar noir plot than an experiment in applying its tropes to people far less competent and less considered in their actions.
Director Jamie Patterson has an established affinity for Brighton’s underworld, for the people on the margins whose stories are not glamorous enough to attract attention most of the time, yet who don’t have enough control over their own lives to lead more conventional narratives. Whilst this one may sound familiar, it’s less a retreading of the familiar noir plot than an experiment in applying its tropes to people far less competent and less considered in their actions.
- 4/22/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sam's friends don't like the boy (Sam Retford) who hangs out on the swings. They don't like the estate that he comes from. They say that he's scummy and smells. When Sam (George Webster) explains that he has a crush on the boy, nobody seems to hear him. So he goes over by himself to say hello, and it's that start of an unexpected friendship.
The boy, as it turns out, is also called Sam. There's a reason why he looks (and possibly smells) the way he does. Although he's 15, there's nobody looking out for him at home, no-one feeding him or washing his clothes, and sometimes he isn't even allowed to shelter there at night. The park is his escape. So popular Sam starts meeting him there as often as he can - whenever he can get away with it. His parents don't like the look of outsider Sam.
The boy, as it turns out, is also called Sam. There's a reason why he looks (and possibly smells) the way he does. Although he's 15, there's nobody looking out for him at home, no-one feeding him or washing his clothes, and sometimes he isn't even allowed to shelter there at night. The park is his escape. So popular Sam starts meeting him there as often as he can - whenever he can get away with it. His parents don't like the look of outsider Sam.
- 8/24/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
The Lego Batman Movie won the weekend as expected, but not with nearly as much money as I had predicted, not besting the opening of The Lego Movie as expected, but instead ending up with a reasonable and not so bad $53 million. Fifty Shades Darker proved that the audience for movies based on the popular books was still great enough for it to win Friday with $21 million (to Lego Batman’s $15 million) and end up second for the weekend with a strong $46.6 million. That was still almost $40 million less than the opening of the previous movie Fifty Shades of Grey, but the sequel also didn’t have the benefits of Valentine’s Day and a four-day holiday. Coming in...
This Past Weekend:
The Lego Batman Movie won the weekend as expected, but not with nearly as much money as I had predicted, not besting the opening of The Lego Movie as expected, but instead ending up with a reasonable and not so bad $53 million. Fifty Shades Darker proved that the audience for movies based on the popular books was still great enough for it to win Friday with $21 million (to Lego Batman’s $15 million) and end up second for the weekend with a strong $46.6 million. That was still almost $40 million less than the opening of the previous movie Fifty Shades of Grey, but the sequel also didn’t have the benefits of Valentine’s Day and a four-day holiday. Coming in...
- 2/15/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The Newport Beach Film Festival, running April 21-28, will include Simon Fitzmaurice’s debut feature, My Name Is Emily.
The film will be part of the festival’s Irish Spotlight event celebrating Celtic cinema and culture on April 24 and stars Evanna Lynvh as a 16-year-old who runs away from her foster parents to break her father (Michael Smiley) out of a mental hospital. George Webster also stars.
Newport Beach Film Festival CEO Greg Schwenk praised the film, calling it “wonderfully crafted” and “one of the best films of the year.”
Other Irish films screenings include Whit Stillman’s Love And Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny, and Mark Noonan’s You’re Ugly Too, starring Aidan Gillen.
The festival will also feature two short film selections, the first of which, After ’16, was commissioned by the Irish Film Board to celebrate the centennial of the 1916 Easter uprising.
Also featured will be the Irish Shorts, a collection...
The film will be part of the festival’s Irish Spotlight event celebrating Celtic cinema and culture on April 24 and stars Evanna Lynvh as a 16-year-old who runs away from her foster parents to break her father (Michael Smiley) out of a mental hospital. George Webster also stars.
Newport Beach Film Festival CEO Greg Schwenk praised the film, calling it “wonderfully crafted” and “one of the best films of the year.”
Other Irish films screenings include Whit Stillman’s Love And Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny, and Mark Noonan’s You’re Ugly Too, starring Aidan Gillen.
The festival will also feature two short film selections, the first of which, After ’16, was commissioned by the Irish Film Board to celebrate the centennial of the 1916 Easter uprising.
Also featured will be the Irish Shorts, a collection...
- 4/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
A diagnosis of motor neurone disease did not thwart Simon Fitzmaurice’s ambitions to make his first feature, which has gone on to score awards and distribution deals.
“When all this happened, it was my writing that saved me,” explains director Simon Fitzmaurice.
“When my life fell apart, my writing was there for me. I became a writer through my darkest days. And, like writing, the passion of film has never left me.”
A diagnosis of motor neurone disease (Mnd) did not thwart Fitzmaurice’s ambitions to make his first feature. If anything, being told he had the progressive condition that attacks the nerves in the brain and spinal cord made him even more determined to get behind the camera.
That he has realised this ambition is an extraordinary feat in itself. The Irish filmmaker is the only known person in the world with Mnd to have written and directed a feature solo.
My Name Is Emily tells the...
“When all this happened, it was my writing that saved me,” explains director Simon Fitzmaurice.
“When my life fell apart, my writing was there for me. I became a writer through my darkest days. And, like writing, the passion of film has never left me.”
A diagnosis of motor neurone disease (Mnd) did not thwart Fitzmaurice’s ambitions to make his first feature. If anything, being told he had the progressive condition that attacks the nerves in the brain and spinal cord made him even more determined to get behind the camera.
That he has realised this ambition is an extraordinary feat in itself. The Irish filmmaker is the only known person in the world with Mnd to have written and directed a feature solo.
My Name Is Emily tells the...
- 2/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
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E4 presents Tripped, a new sci-fi comedy starring Blake Harrison, aka Neil from The Inbetweeners. Here's the first trailer...
Here's one that has our attention. Tripped sees Blake Harrison (Neil from The Inbetweeners, soon to star in the Dad's Army reboot) and George Webster (City Of Dreamers, My Name Is Emily) embroiled in a fantasy quest involving umpteen parallel universes.
E4's new sci-fi comedy series started life as Alt, a pilot by Mr Jamie Mathieson - the writer of two of the best Doctor Who episodes from series 8 (Flatline and Mummy On The Orient Express), as well as feature film Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel. It starred Craig Roberts and Gethin Anthony in that incarnation.
Now The Missing's Harry and Jack Williams are the ones behind the scripts, with Jamie Magnus Stone directing.
Here's the first trailer...
We don't know the premiere date for Tripped yet,...
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E4 presents Tripped, a new sci-fi comedy starring Blake Harrison, aka Neil from The Inbetweeners. Here's the first trailer...
Here's one that has our attention. Tripped sees Blake Harrison (Neil from The Inbetweeners, soon to star in the Dad's Army reboot) and George Webster (City Of Dreamers, My Name Is Emily) embroiled in a fantasy quest involving umpteen parallel universes.
E4's new sci-fi comedy series started life as Alt, a pilot by Mr Jamie Mathieson - the writer of two of the best Doctor Who episodes from series 8 (Flatline and Mummy On The Orient Express), as well as feature film Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel. It starred Craig Roberts and Gethin Anthony in that incarnation.
Now The Missing's Harry and Jack Williams are the ones behind the scripts, with Jamie Magnus Stone directing.
Here's the first trailer...
We don't know the premiere date for Tripped yet,...
- 11/17/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Ryan Kampe and his New York-based team head into the fall festival season with a raft of new acquisitions led by a worldwide deal excluding Australia/New Zealand on Venice premiere Tanna.
Visit FIlms’ roster encompasses world rights excluding Ireland and Scandinavia to My Name Is Emily, the world excluding Australia/New Zealand to A Month Of Sundays and the world for Lace Crater, all of which will screen in Toronto.
Toronto Vanguard world premiere Lace Crater is a genre-bending horror-comedy produced by Joe Swanberg about a woman who has an affair with a ghost during a stay in the Hamptons. Lindsay Burdge stars in Harrison Atkins’ feature directorial debut.
My Name Is Emily stars Evanna Lynch as 16-year-old who ditches her foster home and embarks on a road trip with her new friend to break her troubled father out of a psychiatric institution.
Simon Fitzmaurice wrote and directed using iris recognition software after he was...
Visit FIlms’ roster encompasses world rights excluding Ireland and Scandinavia to My Name Is Emily, the world excluding Australia/New Zealand to A Month Of Sundays and the world for Lace Crater, all of which will screen in Toronto.
Toronto Vanguard world premiere Lace Crater is a genre-bending horror-comedy produced by Joe Swanberg about a woman who has an affair with a ghost during a stay in the Hamptons. Lindsay Burdge stars in Harrison Atkins’ feature directorial debut.
My Name Is Emily stars Evanna Lynch as 16-year-old who ditches her foster home and embarks on a road trip with her new friend to break her troubled father out of a psychiatric institution.
Simon Fitzmaurice wrote and directed using iris recognition software after he was...
- 9/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Simon Fitzmaurice’s debut feature to world premiere at Galway Film Fleadh.
The Galway Film Fleadh (July 7-12) is to open with the world remiere of My Name Is Emily from filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, who wrote and directed the film despite being completely paralysed.
Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - the debilitating condition for which the viral ice-bucket challenge raised awareness last summer - in 2008, shortly after his second short film The Sound of People premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Now completely paralysed, Fitzmaurice typed the script for My Name Is Emily, as well as bestseller It’s Not Yet Dark through the movement of his eyes and iris recognition software.
This is also how he communicated to direct the film during a six-week shoot last year.
Fitzmaurice said: “I’m deeply honoured that the Galway Film Fleadh has invited My Name is Emily to open the festival. Everyone involved...
The Galway Film Fleadh (July 7-12) is to open with the world remiere of My Name Is Emily from filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, who wrote and directed the film despite being completely paralysed.
Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - the debilitating condition for which the viral ice-bucket challenge raised awareness last summer - in 2008, shortly after his second short film The Sound of People premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Now completely paralysed, Fitzmaurice typed the script for My Name Is Emily, as well as bestseller It’s Not Yet Dark through the movement of his eyes and iris recognition software.
This is also how he communicated to direct the film during a six-week shoot last year.
Fitzmaurice said: “I’m deeply honoured that the Galway Film Fleadh has invited My Name is Emily to open the festival. Everyone involved...
- 6/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Georgina Campbell, recently nominated for a BAFTA for her role in BBC Three's Murdered By My Boyfriend, stars alongside the Inbetweeners' Blake Harrison in a new comedy drama for E4 called Tripped.
Blake Harrison leads the cast as Danny, an average 24-year-old who has decided it’s time to grow up, settle down and marry long-term girlfriend Kate, played by Georgina Campbell, but his childhood friend Milo has other ideas and continues to focus on getting high.
23 year old George Webster (represented by Curtis Brown), who recently starred alongside Evanna Lynch in Irish romantic drama, My Name is Emily, plays Danny's stoner best friend Milo.
One night Milo takes a particularly strong batch of hallucinogens, and Danny appears in his living room - except the real Danny’s at his engagement party, and the real Danny doesn’t normally carry a sword! This Danny claims to come from another dimension,...
Blake Harrison leads the cast as Danny, an average 24-year-old who has decided it’s time to grow up, settle down and marry long-term girlfriend Kate, played by Georgina Campbell, but his childhood friend Milo has other ideas and continues to focus on getting high.
23 year old George Webster (represented by Curtis Brown), who recently starred alongside Evanna Lynch in Irish romantic drama, My Name is Emily, plays Danny's stoner best friend Milo.
One night Milo takes a particularly strong batch of hallucinogens, and Danny appears in his living room - except the real Danny’s at his engagement party, and the real Danny doesn’t normally carry a sword! This Danny claims to come from another dimension,...
- 4/14/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The Les Arcs European Film Festival is in full swing, including the sixth edition of the ever-growing Co-Production Village.
The industry events kicked off with the popular Works-In-Progress session, now in its fourth year, that showcases ten (European) films in post-production, looking for financing, distribution or a sales agent.
The event’s artistic director, Frederic Boyer, confirmed the films must be feature length, with a completion target of spring the following year. “The presentations that include three short clips are exclusive to this festival, and have not been presented at other neighbouring festivals such as Thessaloniki or Torino,” said Boyer.
Receiving 15% more entries than previous years, the event’s ‘first-look’ line-up spanned a wide range of themes and production styles. The full list included Family Film (Czech Republic/Slovenia); Galloping Mind (Belgium); The High Sun (Croatia/Slovenia); It’s Time (Romania); Magic Mountain (Poland/ Romania/ France); My Name is Emily (Ireland); Pioneer Heroes (Russia); Rams (Iceland); Sparrows...
The industry events kicked off with the popular Works-In-Progress session, now in its fourth year, that showcases ten (European) films in post-production, looking for financing, distribution or a sales agent.
The event’s artistic director, Frederic Boyer, confirmed the films must be feature length, with a completion target of spring the following year. “The presentations that include three short clips are exclusive to this festival, and have not been presented at other neighbouring festivals such as Thessaloniki or Torino,” said Boyer.
Receiving 15% more entries than previous years, the event’s ‘first-look’ line-up spanned a wide range of themes and production styles. The full list included Family Film (Czech Republic/Slovenia); Galloping Mind (Belgium); The High Sun (Croatia/Slovenia); It’s Time (Romania); Magic Mountain (Poland/ Romania/ France); My Name is Emily (Ireland); Pioneer Heroes (Russia); Rams (Iceland); Sparrows...
- 12/15/2014
- ScreenDaily
Filming has wrapped on Irish drama My Name Is Emily, which stars Evanna Lynch in the title role of Emily, a 16-year-old girl who goes on a road trip across Ireland with a boy from her school to free her father from a psychiatric institution.
Evanna (represented by Cole Kitchenn in the UK), famous for her role as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, said of the role: "After I read the script, it and Emily were all I could think about for weeks; it is so different to anything I've read and yet so real and dynamic, and it is an absolute privilege and a joy to have the opportunity to help bring My Name is Emily to life with Simon and his team. Simon is an incredible person and he is embracing challenges the like that no director has had to contend with before and it is...
Evanna (represented by Cole Kitchenn in the UK), famous for her role as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, said of the role: "After I read the script, it and Emily were all I could think about for weeks; it is so different to anything I've read and yet so real and dynamic, and it is an absolute privilege and a joy to have the opportunity to help bring My Name is Emily to life with Simon and his team. Simon is an incredible person and he is embracing challenges the like that no director has had to contend with before and it is...
- 10/28/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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