At a glance, there’s not much that I have in common with Ade – the lead character in Festival of Slaps. I immigrated to the UK with my Bulgarian family when I was 15, whereas he grew up in South London with his Nigerian parents. Yet, as I watched the film for the first time, the staggering similarities between our adolescent lives kept on coming – from the experience of navigating through traditional Eastern European and Pan-African (respectively) styles of upbringing, to desperately trying to immerse ourselves into a different culture without losing our identity in the process and, God forbid, disappointing our mothers. And, if you need proof that I am not the only one who found this boldly and hilariously conceived 12 minute gem to be a hugely relatable and disarming watch, check out the film’s festival track record. Directed and written by Abdou Cissé, Festival of Slaps examines the...
- 11/13/2023
- by Serafima Serafimova
- Directors Notes
Exclusive: House of the Dragon star Emma D’Arcy has produced their first short film with production partner Ellen Spence (The Essex Serpent) at new shingle Second Name Productions.
The 15-minute movie, titled The Talent and barely out of post-production, has already been nominated in the Best British category at the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, sponsored by Film4 and Pinewood Studios. Winners will be revealed next month at the festival in Cardiff, Wales.
D’Arcy, who plays Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, takes on a character with no royal connections whatsoever in The Talent.
They play Tommy, described as a transmasculine production assistant, assigned as a dogsbody to cater to the caffeine needs of the cast and crew working on a high-end car commercial. “I was really excited to play Tommy,” D’Arcy told this column in a written statement (they declined...
The 15-minute movie, titled The Talent and barely out of post-production, has already been nominated in the Best British category at the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, sponsored by Film4 and Pinewood Studios. Winners will be revealed next month at the festival in Cardiff, Wales.
D’Arcy, who plays Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, takes on a character with no royal connections whatsoever in The Talent.
They play Tommy, described as a transmasculine production assistant, assigned as a dogsbody to cater to the caffeine needs of the cast and crew working on a high-end car commercial. “I was really excited to play Tommy,” D’Arcy told this column in a written statement (they declined...
- 9/7/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Filming fishermen working on dark Gloucestershire waterways at night is challenging enough technically for most cinematographers. But this feat, brought off with panache by “The Elvermen” Dp Anna MacDonald – competing in the Camerimage Documentary Shorts section this year with an atmospheric account of obsessive amateur eel hunters – was just half the battle.
A substantial additional challenge, says MacDonald, is that the eels in question, a catch once prized at more than their weight in gold, are tiny, nearly transparent offspring “like the size of a glass noodle.”
They’ve been known as elvers for millennia and just about everything about them is mysterious – even how the spawn of the European eel ended up in Britain’s West Country is a tale for the ages (and they apparently have a different name from eels because the young of the species are so distinct in appearance from adults that it was believed...
A substantial additional challenge, says MacDonald, is that the eels in question, a catch once prized at more than their weight in gold, are tiny, nearly transparent offspring “like the size of a glass noodle.”
They’ve been known as elvers for millennia and just about everything about them is mysterious – even how the spawn of the European eel ended up in Britain’s West Country is a tale for the ages (and they apparently have a different name from eels because the young of the species are so distinct in appearance from adults that it was believed...
- 11/3/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
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