Exclusive: Channel 4 has set cast for The Gathering, the show from Line of Duty producer World Productions about a violent attack on a teenage girl during a rave.
Boiling Point star Vinette Robinson is aboard the series, which is award-winning novelist Helen Walsh’s debut TV script, and filming has commenced.
BIFA-winner Robinson will play pushy mother Natalie and is joined by leads Eva Morgan and Sadie Soverall (Little Bone Lodge), who play Kelly and Jessica respectively. Also aboard are Warren Brown (Ten Pound Poms) as Kelly’s hard working single parent Paul, and Richard Coyle (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as successful solicitor Jules, along with Sonny Walker (The Responder), Luca Kamleh- Chapman and Hebron Tedros.
Greenlit last year, The Gathering centers on the violent attack on a teenage girl in a tidal islet. Set on Merseyside and interrogating the ways in which today’s parents impose their agendas,...
Boiling Point star Vinette Robinson is aboard the series, which is award-winning novelist Helen Walsh’s debut TV script, and filming has commenced.
BIFA-winner Robinson will play pushy mother Natalie and is joined by leads Eva Morgan and Sadie Soverall (Little Bone Lodge), who play Kelly and Jessica respectively. Also aboard are Warren Brown (Ten Pound Poms) as Kelly’s hard working single parent Paul, and Richard Coyle (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as successful solicitor Jules, along with Sonny Walker (The Responder), Luca Kamleh- Chapman and Hebron Tedros.
Greenlit last year, The Gathering centers on the violent attack on a teenage girl in a tidal islet. Set on Merseyside and interrogating the ways in which today’s parents impose their agendas,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: World Productions and Severn Screen, the producers behind ITV/BritBox’s Luke Evans series The Pembrokeshire Murders, are coming together again to make a series on another notorious crime in Wales — the brutal murder of Lynette White in 1998.
Deadline understands that the five-part series is set up at the BBC and will be penned by author and screenwriter Helen Walsh (The Lemon Grove). The Pembrokeshire Murders and Manhunt helmer Marc Evans will direct the project.
The drama tells the true story of White, a sex worker who was stabbed 50 times in the docklands area of Cardiff, and the enormous miscarriage of justice that took place in the hunt for her killer.
The police investigation led to the arrest of five local Black and mixed-race men, three of whom were found guilty. A sustained campaign for justice finally freed the wrongfully accused men, and attention turned to the hunt for Lynette’s real killer.
Deadline understands that the five-part series is set up at the BBC and will be penned by author and screenwriter Helen Walsh (The Lemon Grove). The Pembrokeshire Murders and Manhunt helmer Marc Evans will direct the project.
The drama tells the true story of White, a sex worker who was stabbed 50 times in the docklands area of Cardiff, and the enormous miscarriage of justice that took place in the hunt for her killer.
The police investigation led to the arrest of five local Black and mixed-race men, three of whom were found guilty. A sustained campaign for justice finally freed the wrongfully accused men, and attention turned to the hunt for Lynette’s real killer.
- 5/21/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Regional fund established in response to Covid-19 crisis.
The UK’s Liverpool Film Office (Lfo) has revealed the first 15 projects to benefit from a new fund, created in response to the Covid-19 crisis.
More than £158,000 worth of funding has been awarded to a mix of established producers in the region as well as projects from burgeoning female and Bame-led companies. The money comes from the Lfo’s Film and TV Development Fund, which was set up a month into lockdown, using resources from Liverpool City Region’s (Lcr) strategic investment fund.
The projects include the first foray into TV drama for Hurricane Films,...
The UK’s Liverpool Film Office (Lfo) has revealed the first 15 projects to benefit from a new fund, created in response to the Covid-19 crisis.
More than £158,000 worth of funding has been awarded to a mix of established producers in the region as well as projects from burgeoning female and Bame-led companies. The money comes from the Lfo’s Film and TV Development Fund, which was set up a month into lockdown, using resources from Liverpool City Region’s (Lcr) strategic investment fund.
The projects include the first foray into TV drama for Hurricane Films,...
- 7/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former Des Hamilton exec launches film and TV outfit Lara Manwaring Casting.
UK casting director Lara Manwaring, who has worked on projects including Nymphomaniac, Adult Life Skills and War Machine, has launched new film and TV casting outfit Lara Manwaring Casting.
The first film of the gate for the company will be Nicolas Cage action-thriller Mandy, currently in pre-production and set to shoot this summer in Belgium.
The film is produced by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision, Xyz Films’ Nate Bolotin and Umedia’s Adrian Politowski with finance from Umedia and Piccadilly Pictures.
Manwaring has been at Des Hamilton Casting since 2009, working on projects including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, Channel 4’s Top Boy and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights.
She served as casting associate on Netflix’s upcoming Brad Pitt satire War Machine and the recent BBC 1 three-part drama Gunpowder.
As casting...
UK casting director Lara Manwaring, who has worked on projects including Nymphomaniac, Adult Life Skills and War Machine, has launched new film and TV casting outfit Lara Manwaring Casting.
The first film of the gate for the company will be Nicolas Cage action-thriller Mandy, currently in pre-production and set to shoot this summer in Belgium.
The film is produced by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision, Xyz Films’ Nate Bolotin and Umedia’s Adrian Politowski with finance from Umedia and Piccadilly Pictures.
Manwaring has been at Des Hamilton Casting since 2009, working on projects including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, Channel 4’s Top Boy and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights.
She served as casting associate on Netflix’s upcoming Brad Pitt satire War Machine and the recent BBC 1 three-part drama Gunpowder.
As casting...
- 6/14/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit bolsters Cannes slate.
UK sales outfit Independent Film Company has added a host of projects to its Cannes slate.
Among them is The Secret Of The Universe, the second feature from Guy Myhill, whose debut The Goob premiered in Venice Days. Produced by Mike Elliott of Emu Films, the circus-set feature follows a clown who tries to keep his heart cold but finds himself plunged into the depths of life.
Also on Independent’s slate is The Lemon Grove, the second feature from writer-director Helen Walsh, whose debut The Violators [pictured] played at Edinburgh and Karlovy Vary. Adapted from her own novel, her next film follows a husband and wife who return to the island of Mallorca annually for a summer holiday. One year, the arrival of the wife’s stepdaughter and her new boyfriend threatens to upset their equilibrium. Producers are David Moores, Dave Hughes and Kevin Sampson of Red Union Films.
The...
UK sales outfit Independent Film Company has added a host of projects to its Cannes slate.
Among them is The Secret Of The Universe, the second feature from Guy Myhill, whose debut The Goob premiered in Venice Days. Produced by Mike Elliott of Emu Films, the circus-set feature follows a clown who tries to keep his heart cold but finds himself plunged into the depths of life.
Also on Independent’s slate is The Lemon Grove, the second feature from writer-director Helen Walsh, whose debut The Violators [pictured] played at Edinburgh and Karlovy Vary. Adapted from her own novel, her next film follows a husband and wife who return to the island of Mallorca annually for a summer holiday. One year, the arrival of the wife’s stepdaughter and her new boyfriend threatens to upset their equilibrium. Producers are David Moores, Dave Hughes and Kevin Sampson of Red Union Films.
The...
- 5/19/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Walsh will helm an adaptation of her own novel The Lemon Grove.
Helen Walsh, who made her feature film debut with The Violators in 2015, will return to the director’s chair with The Lemon Grove, an adaptation of her own acclaimed novel.
Released in 2014, marking the fourth published novel of successful author Walsh, The Lemon Grove follows a husband and wife who return to the island of Mallorca annually for a summer holiday. One year, the arrival of the wife’s stepdaughter and her new boyfriend threatens to upset their equilibrium.
Walsh adapted the screenplay for The Violators production outfit Red Union Films, which optioned the book rights. The feature will shoot in Mallorca next summer.
Red Union Film’s David Moores commented: “The Violators showcased Helen Walsh as one of UK cinema’s outstanding new talents. We at Red Union are very happy to be teaming with Helen once more in bringing this wonderful and sensuous...
Helen Walsh, who made her feature film debut with The Violators in 2015, will return to the director’s chair with The Lemon Grove, an adaptation of her own acclaimed novel.
Released in 2014, marking the fourth published novel of successful author Walsh, The Lemon Grove follows a husband and wife who return to the island of Mallorca annually for a summer holiday. One year, the arrival of the wife’s stepdaughter and her new boyfriend threatens to upset their equilibrium.
Walsh adapted the screenplay for The Violators production outfit Red Union Films, which optioned the book rights. The feature will shoot in Mallorca next summer.
Red Union Film’s David Moores commented: “The Violators showcased Helen Walsh as one of UK cinema’s outstanding new talents. We at Red Union are very happy to be teaming with Helen once more in bringing this wonderful and sensuous...
- 10/12/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
This is the Pure Movies review of The Violators, directed by Helen Walsh, and starring Lauren McQueen (The Mill, Ordinary Lies) and Brogan Ellis (Waterloo Road) alongside Stephen Lord (Penny Dreadful, Shameless, Route Irish), Liam Ainsworth (Kajaki), Derek Barr (Pride) and newcomer Callum King Chadwick. The Violators is a wounding look at a young woman’s navigation through life whilst encountering dangerous men at every corner, chipping away at her hardened exterior. Bestselling author Helen Walsh (The Lemon Grove) has translated her interest in transgressive sexualities, gender and class onto film. With a female writer and director, and starring two female protagonists, The Violators is significant in a time where there is a perceived dearth of women film directors. The events of the story are shocking but the waves this film will make in terms of disturbing the male-dominated status quo of cinema will be more deeply felt.
- 7/12/2016
- by Helen Chapman
- Pure Movies
★★★★☆Ten years have passed since Shane Meadows' This Is England punched a vitriolic, tattooed fist through the 1980s Midlands racial divide. Nationalist tension does not feature in novelist turned writer-director Helen Walsh's The Violators but it is a comparably hard-hitting and bleak state of the British nation address. At a time where class division seems to be worsening, Walsh points an accusatory finger at a system that fails those who need it most, but also simply at how deplorably people can treat one another. An example of loving thy neighbour it is not, at least not unconditionally. Acts of kindness are not freely given and must be reciprocated, often in kind. This is but one of many galling elements of a frank, slow-burning and gritty realist film that will leave audiences seething.
- 6/18/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Novelist Helen Walsh’s film about a teenager rehoused after an abuse case is well-acted and forthright, if a little contrived
Novelist Helen Walsh makes an interesting debut as a writer-director with this atmospheric piece of lo-fi British social realism. It’s flawed by a slightly unconvincing and anticlimactic gun-related ending, but well acted, forthright and confident in the universe it creates. The action is moored to a triangle of dysfunction: teenage Shelly (Lauren McQueen) has been rehoused by social services after an abuse case and comes into contact with a menacing, manipulative pawnshop owner and loan shark, Mikey (Stephen Lord). He appears also to have some kind of relationship with Rachel (Brogan Ellis) and this now discarded young woman – from an upscale part of town – forms a strange, parasitic friendship with Shelly. The news that Shelly’s scary dad is coming up for parole smothers the whole movie with fear and jumpy paranoia. It’s a movie of watching and being watched. Rachel gets Shelly to do a runner from a restaurant, but it isn’t until later, when we appreciate how the waitress in that scene fits in to the larger picture, that we discern a pattern of resentment and revenge. That pattern is a little contrived, but it doesn’t stop this film ticking radioactively with unease.
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Novelist Helen Walsh makes an interesting debut as a writer-director with this atmospheric piece of lo-fi British social realism. It’s flawed by a slightly unconvincing and anticlimactic gun-related ending, but well acted, forthright and confident in the universe it creates. The action is moored to a triangle of dysfunction: teenage Shelly (Lauren McQueen) has been rehoused by social services after an abuse case and comes into contact with a menacing, manipulative pawnshop owner and loan shark, Mikey (Stephen Lord). He appears also to have some kind of relationship with Rachel (Brogan Ellis) and this now discarded young woman – from an upscale part of town – forms a strange, parasitic friendship with Shelly. The news that Shelly’s scary dad is coming up for parole smothers the whole movie with fear and jumpy paranoia. It’s a movie of watching and being watched. Rachel gets Shelly to do a runner from a restaurant, but it isn’t until later, when we appreciate how the waitress in that scene fits in to the larger picture, that we discern a pattern of resentment and revenge. That pattern is a little contrived, but it doesn’t stop this film ticking radioactively with unease.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The directorial debut of Helen Walsh, The Violators follows the lives of two teenage girls as they navigate the trials and tribulations of their (seemingly) radically different lives. Shelly (Lauren McQueen) lives with her older brother Andy (Derek Barr) and younger half-brother Jerome (Callum King Chadwick) on a rough council estate in Birkenhead. Despite having […]
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- 6/15/2016
- by Lauren Burgess
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
- 6/14/2016
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Independent - Film
Helen Walsh’s directorial debut will hit UK/Ireland cinemas in May 2016.
Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired UK/Ireland rights to The Violators, Helen Walsh’s gritty drama that premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival last June.
The film stars newcomer Lauren McQueen as a girl growing up on a British council estate who testifies against her abusive father.
The Violators marks the directorial debut of Walsh, known for writing novels including Brass and Go To Sleep.
Producers are David Moores and David A. Hughes of Red Union Films, which is also handling international sales. The duo were nominated for Producer of the Year for The Violators at last month’s British Independent Film Awards.
Bulldog has earmarked a UK/Ireland theatrical release for May 20.
Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired UK/Ireland rights to The Violators, Helen Walsh’s gritty drama that premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival last June.
The film stars newcomer Lauren McQueen as a girl growing up on a British council estate who testifies against her abusive father.
The Violators marks the directorial debut of Walsh, known for writing novels including Brass and Go To Sleep.
Producers are David Moores and David A. Hughes of Red Union Films, which is also handling international sales. The duo were nominated for Producer of the Year for The Violators at last month’s British Independent Film Awards.
Bulldog has earmarked a UK/Ireland theatrical release for May 20.
- 1/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
In his preview for the BFI of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, opening today and running through June 28, Neil Young notes that 2015 "marks the 69th consecutive edition of an event which, while technically younger than Cannes and Venice (both established in 1932), boasts a longer unbroken run than either." Many previews are highlighting this year's representation of women directors, including Jane Linfoot (The Incident), Helen Walsh (The Violators), Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), Karen Guthrie (The Closer We Get)—and Amy Berg, in town with Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing. » - David Hudson...
- 6/17/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In his preview for the BFI of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, opening today and running through June 28, Neil Young notes that 2015 "marks the 69th consecutive edition of an event which, while technically younger than Cannes and Venice (both established in 1932), boasts a longer unbroken run than either." Many previews are highlighting this year's representation of women directors, including Jane Linfoot (The Incident), Helen Walsh (The Violators), Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), Karen Guthrie (The Closer We Get)—and Amy Berg, in town with Prophet’s Prey and Every Secret Thing. » - David Hudson...
- 6/17/2015
- Keyframe
Anti-Nazi satire from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Bruggemann and a new documentary from Mark Cousins among titles.Scroll down for competition line-ups
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.
The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.
Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.
Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...
- 6/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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