Principal photography has wrapped on scripted short film “Spirit of Place,” headlined by Oscar, BAFTA and Tony-winning actor Mark Rylance.
The film, written and directed by Jack Cooper Stimpson (“Alex’s Dream”), is a meditation on identity and follows two young protagonists as they spend time in and around inner-city wetlands. Through chance encounters and some curious discoveries, they begin to learn about themselves and their relationship with the natural world. It is executive produced by non-profit media and conservation organization On the Edge and being made in association with wetland conservation charity Wwt (Wildfowl and Wetland Trust), of which Rylance is an ambassador.
The cast also includes Hannah Chinn (“Domina”), Jordan Peters (“Pirates”), Rakhee Thakrar (“Sex Education”) and Sam Thorpe-Spinks (“A Spy Among Friends”). It is produced by Lewis Brierly and Izzy Meikle-Small and being funded and executive produced by Beth Blood and Karen Vermeulen at On the Edge.
The film, written and directed by Jack Cooper Stimpson (“Alex’s Dream”), is a meditation on identity and follows two young protagonists as they spend time in and around inner-city wetlands. Through chance encounters and some curious discoveries, they begin to learn about themselves and their relationship with the natural world. It is executive produced by non-profit media and conservation organization On the Edge and being made in association with wetland conservation charity Wwt (Wildfowl and Wetland Trust), of which Rylance is an ambassador.
The cast also includes Hannah Chinn (“Domina”), Jordan Peters (“Pirates”), Rakhee Thakrar (“Sex Education”) and Sam Thorpe-Spinks (“A Spy Among Friends”). It is produced by Lewis Brierly and Izzy Meikle-Small and being funded and executive produced by Beth Blood and Karen Vermeulen at On the Edge.
- 8/22/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Principal photography is underway in the Algarve, Portugal, on writer-director Tim Lewiston’s (The Hot Potato) feature drama There’s Always Hope.
Colm Meaney (Hell On Wheels), Kate Ashfield (Shaun Of The Dead) and newcomer Hannah Chinn star in the feature about a successful author named Jonathan Stack (Meaney), who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha (Ashfield), who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner.
Devastated, he abandons the elegant family home in leafy Stratford Upon Avon and drives his ancient Jaguar to the family villa in Portugal where their young daughter Hope (Chinn) and her her half-sister Amelia (Brenda Meaney) try to help sort things out.
Producers are Harriet Hammond, Victor Glynn (Staged) and Alan Latham (Waiting For Anya...
Colm Meaney (Hell On Wheels), Kate Ashfield (Shaun Of The Dead) and newcomer Hannah Chinn star in the feature about a successful author named Jonathan Stack (Meaney), who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha (Ashfield), who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner.
Devastated, he abandons the elegant family home in leafy Stratford Upon Avon and drives his ancient Jaguar to the family villa in Portugal where their young daughter Hope (Chinn) and her her half-sister Amelia (Brenda Meaney) try to help sort things out.
Producers are Harriet Hammond, Victor Glynn (Staged) and Alan Latham (Waiting For Anya...
- 10/20/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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