Sky Italia is backing its first English-language movie, an innovative Ireland-set chiller working-titled “Shadows,” starring Saskia Reeves (“Luther”) and young British talents Mia Threapleton (“A Little Chaos”) and Lola Petticrew (“A Bump Along the Way”).
Production just wrapped near Dublin on this “elevated genre film,” as director Carlo Lavagna describes it.
The Sky Italia original will mark the first pic sold internationally by the Comcast-owned pay-tv operator through Sky Italia’s Vision Distribution unit.
“Shadows” is centered on family dynamics in a post-apocalyptic world where a mother and her two daughters must avoid contact with daylight and its shadows in order to survive.
Reeves plays the controlling mother of two adolescent girls named Alma, played by Threapleton, who is Kate Winslet’s daughter, and Alex, played by Petticrew. The daughters try to rebel and emancipate themselves by escaping their confinement, but their relationship also becomes conflict–riven.
“Shadows,” which combines psychological thriller,...
Production just wrapped near Dublin on this “elevated genre film,” as director Carlo Lavagna describes it.
The Sky Italia original will mark the first pic sold internationally by the Comcast-owned pay-tv operator through Sky Italia’s Vision Distribution unit.
“Shadows” is centered on family dynamics in a post-apocalyptic world where a mother and her two daughters must avoid contact with daylight and its shadows in order to survive.
Reeves plays the controlling mother of two adolescent girls named Alma, played by Threapleton, who is Kate Winslet’s daughter, and Alex, played by Petticrew. The daughters try to rebel and emancipate themselves by escaping their confinement, but their relationship also becomes conflict–riven.
“Shadows,” which combines psychological thriller,...
- 11/15/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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