Loran Dunn, Sorcha Bacon and Savannah James-Bayly have formed new company.
Rising UK producers Loran Dunn, Sorcha Bacon, and Savannah James-Bayly have teamed up to start new production company Teen Club which has optioned its first book – Erin Gough’s young adult novel Amelia Westlake Was Never Here.
The trio will initially focus on stories about young queer women.
First published in April 2018, Gough’s book follows teenagers Wilhelmina and Harriet as they join forces under the guise of fictional student Amelia Westlake to carry out a series of pranks that expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.
Rising UK producers Loran Dunn, Sorcha Bacon, and Savannah James-Bayly have teamed up to start new production company Teen Club which has optioned its first book – Erin Gough’s young adult novel Amelia Westlake Was Never Here.
The trio will initially focus on stories about young queer women.
First published in April 2018, Gough’s book follows teenagers Wilhelmina and Harriet as they join forces under the guise of fictional student Amelia Westlake to carry out a series of pranks that expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.
- 5/1/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures awarded last night.
Tom Abell, founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures, was presented last night (April 11) with the inaugural Iris Fellowship, honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the Lgbt+ film industry.
The award is an extension of the Iris Prize, which awards £30,000 annually to the best short film shown at Cardiff’s Lgbt+ Iris Prize Film Festival, with entries selected by multiple international partner festivals, and £20,000 to the best British short. The prizes are supported annually by a £50,000 donation by the Michael Bishop Foundation.
Tom Abell, founder and managing director of the UK’s Peccadillo Pictures, was presented last night (April 11) with the inaugural Iris Fellowship, honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the Lgbt+ film industry.
The award is an extension of the Iris Prize, which awards £30,000 annually to the best short film shown at Cardiff’s Lgbt+ Iris Prize Film Festival, with entries selected by multiple international partner festivals, and £20,000 to the best British short. The prizes are supported annually by a £50,000 donation by the Michael Bishop Foundation.
- 4/12/2019
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
’Wonder Park’, ’Wild Rose’ among other new openers.
Lionsgate’s superhero title Hellboy will look to overcome predominantly negative reviews for the film in its first weekend at the UK box office.
After a reviews embargo that lifted at 10pm UK time on Wednesday 10, the film opened wide around the country yesterday (Thursday 11).
Directed by Neil Marshall, the film is based on the Dark Horse Comics character, who battles an undead sorceress trying to destroy the world. Stranger Things star David Harbour plays the title role, alongside Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and Thomas Haden Church.
Lionsgate’s superhero title Hellboy will look to overcome predominantly negative reviews for the film in its first weekend at the UK box office.
After a reviews embargo that lifted at 10pm UK time on Wednesday 10, the film opened wide around the country yesterday (Thursday 11).
Directed by Neil Marshall, the film is based on the Dark Horse Comics character, who battles an undead sorceress trying to destroy the world. Stranger Things star David Harbour plays the title role, alongside Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and Thomas Haden Church.
- 4/12/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Waiting for a ship to come in, in A Deal With The Universe
Jason Barker's groundbreaking documentary A Deal With The Universe, about fertility treatment, being a transgender parent and the struggles that he and his partner Tracy went through to have a child, brings a refreshing human angle to some highly contested issues. In the first part of our recent interview he and I discussed his process as a filmmaker, his reasons for making the film and the importance of telling positive stories about trans people's lives. This part begins as we approached the subject of how other trans people have reacted to the film and what they thought about his decision to try and get pregnant himself.
Jason looking out at the universe
“Our community have changed a lot," he says. "I think when I was pregnant I had one comment from one trans guy. It didn...
Jason Barker's groundbreaking documentary A Deal With The Universe, about fertility treatment, being a transgender parent and the struggles that he and his partner Tracy went through to have a child, brings a refreshing human angle to some highly contested issues. In the first part of our recent interview he and I discussed his process as a filmmaker, his reasons for making the film and the importance of telling positive stories about trans people's lives. This part begins as we approached the subject of how other trans people have reacted to the film and what they thought about his decision to try and get pregnant himself.
Jason looking out at the universe
“Our community have changed a lot," he says. "I think when I was pregnant I had one comment from one trans guy. It didn...
- 4/11/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jason Barker’s documentary about having to put his transitioning on hold while he tried to become pregnant is filled with gentleness
There’s tenderness and intimacy in this film from Jason Barker, a transgender man who has edited down 25 hours of video footage that he shot over eight years of trying to have a baby with his partner, Tracey, while at the same time pursuing the process of transitioning.
Tracey’s breast cancer and mastectomy was a blow that complicated matters. As they put it: “We started out with four breasts and we’ll be lucky to end up with one.” The film that has come out of this has a video diary or home movie feel, and what it arguably loses in discipline and focus – there are quite a few meandering shots of the view from their flat in East London, and the pigeons making an appearance on...
There’s tenderness and intimacy in this film from Jason Barker, a transgender man who has edited down 25 hours of video footage that he shot over eight years of trying to have a baby with his partner, Tracey, while at the same time pursuing the process of transitioning.
Tracey’s breast cancer and mastectomy was a blow that complicated matters. As they put it: “We started out with four breasts and we’ll be lucky to end up with one.” The film that has come out of this has a video diary or home movie feel, and what it arguably loses in discipline and focus – there are quite a few meandering shots of the view from their flat in East London, and the pigeons making an appearance on...
- 4/11/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Testing times in A Deal With The Universe
Back in the early years of this century, Jason Barker and his partner Tracey began trying for a child. That might seem like an everyday story, and in many ways it is, but the sheer number of obstacles they had to overcome on their journey was something else, with one disappointment after another. Eventually, with Tracey unable to take it any further, Jason decided that - as a trans man - he would just have to do it himself. His film documenting their experiences, A Deal With The Universe, is now getting a cinema release and is having a big impact of audiences and critics alike.
Jason and I first met in 2012, when he was a programmer at BFI Flare and I was part of a panel there on documentary Intersexion. We both agreed that it was good to reconnect for a...
Back in the early years of this century, Jason Barker and his partner Tracey began trying for a child. That might seem like an everyday story, and in many ways it is, but the sheer number of obstacles they had to overcome on their journey was something else, with one disappointment after another. Eventually, with Tracey unable to take it any further, Jason decided that - as a trans man - he would just have to do it himself. His film documenting their experiences, A Deal With The Universe, is now getting a cinema release and is having a big impact of audiences and critics alike.
Jason and I first met in 2012, when he was a programmer at BFI Flare and I was part of a panel there on documentary Intersexion. We both agreed that it was good to reconnect for a...
- 4/9/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The film will form part of a programme released by Peccadillo to time with Lgbt History Month 2019.
Jason Barker’s feature doc A Deal With The Universe will receive a UK theatrical run via Peccadillo Pictures, which is planning to time the release with Lgbt History Month in February, 2019.
Peccadillo is curating a selection of Lgbt-themed films to release that month. The provisional list also includes a 2k restoration of Greta Schiller’s Beyond Stonewall and a 20th anniversary 2k restoration of Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman. The films will receive event-style releases across the UK, in cinemas and beyond,...
Jason Barker’s feature doc A Deal With The Universe will receive a UK theatrical run via Peccadillo Pictures, which is planning to time the release with Lgbt History Month in February, 2019.
Peccadillo is curating a selection of Lgbt-themed films to release that month. The provisional list also includes a 2k restoration of Greta Schiller’s Beyond Stonewall and a 20th anniversary 2k restoration of Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman. The films will receive event-style releases across the UK, in cinemas and beyond,...
- 9/27/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Shakedown
This year's Scottish Queer International Film Festival (Sqiff) is to open with Visible, a film exploring the stories of queer trans intersex people of colour, it was announced today. The documentary short will feature as part of a night of Lgbtq+ shorts from around the world, all of them new to Scotland.
Also showing in Scotland for the first time will be Shakedown, the story of Los Angeles' famous all black, women-owned lesbian strip club. Director Leilah Weinraub will attend for a Q&A after the screening. Jason Barker will be at the festival to introduce A Deal With The Universe, about his journey through pregnancy and new parenthood as a trans man,.
Dykes, Camera, Action! + Boom Bust: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon will explore the history of lesbian representation onscreen and the potential for new expressions of queer identity.
Tickets for these events are now on sale.
This year's Scottish Queer International Film Festival (Sqiff) is to open with Visible, a film exploring the stories of queer trans intersex people of colour, it was announced today. The documentary short will feature as part of a night of Lgbtq+ shorts from around the world, all of them new to Scotland.
Also showing in Scotland for the first time will be Shakedown, the story of Los Angeles' famous all black, women-owned lesbian strip club. Director Leilah Weinraub will attend for a Q&A after the screening. Jason Barker will be at the festival to introduce A Deal With The Universe, about his journey through pregnancy and new parenthood as a trans man,.
Dykes, Camera, Action! + Boom Bust: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon will explore the history of lesbian representation onscreen and the potential for new expressions of queer identity.
Tickets for these events are now on sale.
- 9/26/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Line-up includes introductions from Hugh Grant and Rupert Everett.
The BFI Flare: London Lgbtq+ Film Festival has announced its industry programme, which will run alongside the wider festival, March 21 to April 1.
The Makers, a strand of conversations with prominent individuals in Lgbtq+ cinema, returns with speakers Robin Campillo (director of Bpm (Beats Per Minute), which screens at the Festival, Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol producer) and Francis Lee (God’s Own Country writer/director).
Also included in the programme is Anatomy Of An Episode: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, in which writer/executive producer Tom Rob Smith will discuss...
The BFI Flare: London Lgbtq+ Film Festival has announced its industry programme, which will run alongside the wider festival, March 21 to April 1.
The Makers, a strand of conversations with prominent individuals in Lgbtq+ cinema, returns with speakers Robin Campillo (director of Bpm (Beats Per Minute), which screens at the Festival, Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol producer) and Francis Lee (God’s Own Country writer/director).
Also included in the programme is Anatomy Of An Episode: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, in which writer/executive producer Tom Rob Smith will discuss...
- 3/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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