Jaime Winstone to lead cast for Rose Tremain adaptation.
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
- 3/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Neruda
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
- 2/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jan Dunn (Gypo) is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders for producers Michael Knowles of NoW Films and James Collie of Violet Pictures.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
- 2/9/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
'Ice Men,' 'Gypo' join Wolfe stable
Wolfe Releasing has acquired two new titles for theatrical distribution: Thom Best's thriller Ice Men and Jan Dunn's political drama Gypo. Wolfe president Maria Lynn brokered the deal for Gypo, which portrays the breakdown of a working-class family, at the Festival de Cannes with Fil Frank Mannion of Swipe Films. The deal includes all North American festival, theatrical and home video rights. Lynn brokered a similar deal for Ice Men, which revolves around a group of friends whose secrets are revealed, with Sara Bagdasarianz of Seville Pictures.
- 5/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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