Performance poet with Asperger’s brings his experience to debut film.
Stretch New Media, a new film and digital-media producer established to support and give voice to vulnerable groups, has announced its first production, Frosted Glass, which started shooting today in London.
The 40-minute film is a semi-autobiographical story written by Anthony Fairweather, an award-winning poet and performance artist whose poetry helped a psychiatrist diagnose him with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of 26. Frosted Glass is based on Fairweather’s experience and the stigma of mental illness.
Directed by cinematographer Ben Cole (The Wedding Video, 1 Giant Leap) with assistant directors Chloe Plumb and Chris Spence, Frosted Glass is exec produced by Dean Stalham and Carlotta Allum for Stretch New Media. The film has been funded by a combination of private investors and a crowdfunding initiative, which is ongoing in a bid to complete the film.
Frosted Glass stars Andrew Dowbiggin as a talented poet with Asperger...
Stretch New Media, a new film and digital-media producer established to support and give voice to vulnerable groups, has announced its first production, Frosted Glass, which started shooting today in London.
The 40-minute film is a semi-autobiographical story written by Anthony Fairweather, an award-winning poet and performance artist whose poetry helped a psychiatrist diagnose him with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of 26. Frosted Glass is based on Fairweather’s experience and the stigma of mental illness.
Directed by cinematographer Ben Cole (The Wedding Video, 1 Giant Leap) with assistant directors Chloe Plumb and Chris Spence, Frosted Glass is exec produced by Dean Stalham and Carlotta Allum for Stretch New Media. The film has been funded by a combination of private investors and a crowdfunding initiative, which is ongoing in a bid to complete the film.
Frosted Glass stars Andrew Dowbiggin as a talented poet with Asperger...
- 5/25/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Gurinder Chadha’s hit film Bend It Like Beckham is being readied for the West End stage and following a host of auditions and workshops, the cast for the highly anticipated stage version Bend It Like Beckham the Musical has been formally announced.
Natalie Dew will play football crazy Jess with Lauren Samuels as Jules, a player with the Harriers, a local women’s football team, and Jamie Campbell Bower as their coach Joe. The three young leads will be supported by some familiar faces, including comedian Ronni Ancona who plays Paula, Jules’s Mum, with Jamal Andréas as Jess’ good friend Tony.
Preeya Kalidas who appeared in the original film as one of the cousins, will take on the role of Pinky, Jess’ sister and Tony Jayawardena andNatasha Jayetileke take on the all important roles of her parents, Mr and Mrs Bhamra.
Jess needs extra time. She is facing...
Natalie Dew will play football crazy Jess with Lauren Samuels as Jules, a player with the Harriers, a local women’s football team, and Jamie Campbell Bower as their coach Joe. The three young leads will be supported by some familiar faces, including comedian Ronni Ancona who plays Paula, Jules’s Mum, with Jamal Andréas as Jess’ good friend Tony.
Preeya Kalidas who appeared in the original film as one of the cousins, will take on the role of Pinky, Jess’ sister and Tony Jayawardena andNatasha Jayetileke take on the all important roles of her parents, Mr and Mrs Bhamra.
Jess needs extra time. She is facing...
- 1/13/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
★☆☆☆☆ Hoping to emulate some of the success of surprise 2011 hit Bridesmaids and even Nigel Cole's The Wedding Video (2012), Jesse Lawrence's The Knot (2012) creeps into UK cinemas this week with a trail of negative press following in its wake. Unlike the universally-panned Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), the team behind The Knot were at least brave enough to screen their gross-out British comedy to the national press ahead of its release. Unfortunately, such a gesture is unlikely to dissuade audiences from condemning the film to their 'Worst of 2012' shortlists.
Read more »...
Read more »...
- 10/4/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Only one tiny thing went wrong when Robert Webb, star of The Wedding Video, got married himself...
"The music was set at bizarrely low volume, so it all sounded a bit more sombre than it was meant to when we were walking down the aisle.
You'll be amazed to learn that it doesn't all go according to plan in The Wedding Video, starring Rufus Hound, Robert Webb and Lucy Punch
"But the rest of the day was fine, a traditional wedding, with nothing too fancy, all within proportion."
Nothing at all, in fact, like the ceremony he takes part in on screen, which sees Webb, of Peep Show and Fresh Meat fame, line up as the groom Tim to Lucy Punch's bride Saskia, with Harriet Walter and Miriam Margolyes on hand to provide commentary and confetti. He talks us through it...
"These are two people who shouldn't probably get married.
"The music was set at bizarrely low volume, so it all sounded a bit more sombre than it was meant to when we were walking down the aisle.
You'll be amazed to learn that it doesn't all go according to plan in The Wedding Video, starring Rufus Hound, Robert Webb and Lucy Punch
"But the rest of the day was fine, a traditional wedding, with nothing too fancy, all within proportion."
Nothing at all, in fact, like the ceremony he takes part in on screen, which sees Webb, of Peep Show and Fresh Meat fame, line up as the groom Tim to Lucy Punch's bride Saskia, with Harriet Walter and Miriam Margolyes on hand to provide commentary and confetti. He talks us through it...
"These are two people who shouldn't probably get married.
- 8/20/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Nigel Cole, the British documentary-maker turned comedy director, appears to be stepping into the shoes long vacated by the Boulting brothers (his last picture was actually an updating of the Boultings' The Family Way, renamed All in Good Time). Set in the snobbish world of Cheshire's nouveau riche middle class (the less genteel descendants of the same county's Cranford crowd), The Wedding Video is about the making of a wedding movie by the upwardly mobile groom's feckless, boozy brother. A compendium of every terrible wedding experience and joke you ever heard (including the bride's teenage reputation for drugs and promiscuity), it's crude, broad and moderately funny. Harriet Walter and Miriam Margolyes as respectively the bride's mother and grandmother are sharp and credible.
ComedyComedyPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More...
ComedyComedyPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More...
- 8/18/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Take This Waltz (15)
(Sarah Polley, 2011, Can/Spa/Jap) Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Jennifer Podemski. 116 mins
This is almost the opposite of a romcom: it deals with the prospect of a happy couple breaking up, as Williams is tempted away from cuddly partner Rogen by a handsome, wholesome neighbour. Which is better? The solid, stable kind of love, or the whirlwind, passionate kind? There are some irritating quirks, but on the whole it's an intelligent, truthful drama exploring guilt, regret, confusion and other grown-up emotions generally absent from the summer movie season.
The Bourne Legacy (12A)
(Tony Gilroy, 2012, Us) Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton. 135 mins
It's really the Damon legacy we're talking about here, and whether Renner can plug the Matt-shaped hole in the action franchise. He's got the right mix of acting and one-man-death-machine skills for the job, though this story of shady government operatives...
(Sarah Polley, 2011, Can/Spa/Jap) Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Jennifer Podemski. 116 mins
This is almost the opposite of a romcom: it deals with the prospect of a happy couple breaking up, as Williams is tempted away from cuddly partner Rogen by a handsome, wholesome neighbour. Which is better? The solid, stable kind of love, or the whirlwind, passionate kind? There are some irritating quirks, but on the whole it's an intelligent, truthful drama exploring guilt, regret, confusion and other grown-up emotions generally absent from the summer movie season.
The Bourne Legacy (12A)
(Tony Gilroy, 2012, Us) Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton. 135 mins
It's really the Damon legacy we're talking about here, and whether Renner can plug the Matt-shaped hole in the action franchise. He's got the right mix of acting and one-man-death-machine skills for the job, though this story of shady government operatives...
- 8/17/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Blockbuster season may be drawing slowly to a close but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still a couple of big hitters out there hoping to make a dent in the Box Office chart.
In the meantime, The Dark Knight Rises continue to rake in the coins and it still looks set to match and possibly surpass Avengers Assemble’s total gross. Seth Macfarlane’s comedy Ted still stands at the top of the chart however after a second strong week. Macfarlane’s comedy has done pretty darn well in its opening fortnight, taking in a whopping £17million thus far. When one considers that The Hangover had only taken around £7million at this point, it emphasises how well Ted has performed in this time where franchises and sequels seem to rule all.
Overall it’s been a fairly slow few weeks at the cinema and the draw of the...
In the meantime, The Dark Knight Rises continue to rake in the coins and it still looks set to match and possibly surpass Avengers Assemble’s total gross. Seth Macfarlane’s comedy Ted still stands at the top of the chart however after a second strong week. Macfarlane’s comedy has done pretty darn well in its opening fortnight, taking in a whopping £17million thus far. When one considers that The Hangover had only taken around £7million at this point, it emphasises how well Ted has performed in this time where franchises and sequels seem to rule all.
Overall it’s been a fairly slow few weeks at the cinema and the draw of the...
- 8/17/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Four Weddings and a Funeral has set the precedent for the romantic comedy of wedding bell errors. Unfortunately, all other wedding-themed films are often judged critically by comparison.
As much as Made In Dagenham director Nigel Cole’s The Wedding Video is different in its ‘caught on camera’, fly-on-the-wall approach, the end result should be a same with the ‘rom’ and the ‘com’ in equal abundance. The comedy is there – and side-splittingly funny in a unique British sense at times, but the romance is a little lacking, like a dafter episode of Peep Show for the immature keeping nuptials at bay.
Raif (Rufus Hound) is back from travelling to attend his older brother Tim’s (Robert Webb) wedding, but not before he carries out his Best Man duties. Armed with a camera, eternal prankster Raif decides to make a ‘warts-and-all’ wedding video for the happy couple, soon discovering that the...
As much as Made In Dagenham director Nigel Cole’s The Wedding Video is different in its ‘caught on camera’, fly-on-the-wall approach, the end result should be a same with the ‘rom’ and the ‘com’ in equal abundance. The comedy is there – and side-splittingly funny in a unique British sense at times, but the romance is a little lacking, like a dafter episode of Peep Show for the immature keeping nuptials at bay.
Raif (Rufus Hound) is back from travelling to attend his older brother Tim’s (Robert Webb) wedding, but not before he carries out his Best Man duties. Armed with a camera, eternal prankster Raif decides to make a ‘warts-and-all’ wedding video for the happy couple, soon discovering that the...
- 8/16/2012
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Reuniting the writer and director of Calendar Girls The Wedding Video is a mockumentary take on the traditional wedding rom-com genre, with a lot of the film being shot by Rufus Hound, making his feature acting debut for Nigel Cole’s latest film.
He appears as the wayward Raif, brother to Robert Webb’s Tim whose nuptials he plans to film and give to the new bride and groom as a present. Things, as you would expect, do not go to plan.
Last September I visited Basildon Park in West Berkshire as it played host to a series of small but significant social disasters caught on camera by Raif and others and there was the hectic air familiar to both movie sets and wedding ceremonies.
I sat down with the writer Tim Firth in a small room housing several back staircases one could imagine playing host to an unending procession of staff and caterers.
He appears as the wayward Raif, brother to Robert Webb’s Tim whose nuptials he plans to film and give to the new bride and groom as a present. Things, as you would expect, do not go to plan.
Last September I visited Basildon Park in West Berkshire as it played host to a series of small but significant social disasters caught on camera by Raif and others and there was the hectic air familiar to both movie sets and wedding ceremonies.
I sat down with the writer Tim Firth in a small room housing several back staircases one could imagine playing host to an unending procession of staff and caterers.
- 8/16/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★☆☆☆ Nigel Cole's latest comic offering draws together a jolly of British comedians in The Wedding Video (2012), a light-hearted prolonged snub at the highs and lows of planning a wedding, starring Lucy Punch, Robert Webb and Rufus Hound. Hound plays Raif, a man with a very unique sense of humour, flying back from his travels for his brother Tim's wedding to seemingly posh Cheshire gal, Saskia (Punch).
Read more »...
Read more »...
- 8/15/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham) returns behind the camera once more this summer with The Wedding Video, a new British comedy led by Lucy Punch (Bad Teacher), Robert Webb (Peep Show), and Rufus Hound (Hounded).
The film will be released in the UK next Friday, and now Entertainment Film Distributors have debuted three new clips, following the first trailer that landed a few weeks back.
“Raif (Hound), a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour, is asked to be his brother Tim’s (Webb) best man when he marries Saskia (Punch).
To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia (Miriam Margolyes) would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex (Harriet Walker) has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ — the English ‘Beverley Hills’. Raif’s present to the...
The film will be released in the UK next Friday, and now Entertainment Film Distributors have debuted three new clips, following the first trailer that landed a few weeks back.
“Raif (Hound), a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour, is asked to be his brother Tim’s (Webb) best man when he marries Saskia (Punch).
To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia (Miriam Margolyes) would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex (Harriet Walker) has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ — the English ‘Beverley Hills’. Raif’s present to the...
- 8/10/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
How Les Enfants du Paradis, a French film about a theatre company, convinced the actress that a life on the stage – and in front of the cameras – was for her
I first saw Les Enfants du Paradis when I was about 16 and still at school. I was completely intoxicated by it. What I found so thrilling was the way it portrayed the world of the theatre. It made me realise that this was a place where art happened: it wasn't just a lot of nonsense. It was about the development of the soul: people spent their whole lives in the theatre and relished it and grew in it. I think that had a big effect on my decision to become an actress.
The film is set in the mid-19th century, but it was made in the early 1940s, while France was under German occupation, and what an extraordinary achievement...
I first saw Les Enfants du Paradis when I was about 16 and still at school. I was completely intoxicated by it. What I found so thrilling was the way it portrayed the world of the theatre. It made me realise that this was a place where art happened: it wasn't just a lot of nonsense. It was about the development of the soul: people spent their whole lives in the theatre and relished it and grew in it. I think that had a big effect on my decision to become an actress.
The film is set in the mid-19th century, but it was made in the early 1940s, while France was under German occupation, and what an extraordinary achievement...
- 7/28/2012
- by Killian Fox
- The Guardian - Film News
Entertainment Film Distribution have released the first trailer for their new movie The Wedding Video. It has a fab British cast which includes Lucy Punch, Robert Webb, Rufus Hound and is directed by Nigel Cole who has previous brought us Made in Dagenham, Calendar Girls. The script comes from the man behind Confessions of a Shopaholic, Calendar Girls Tim Firth.
We can expect to see it on our UK screens 17th August.
To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia (Miriam Margolyes) would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex (Harriet Walker) has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ — the English ‘Beverley Hills’. Raif’s present to the happy couple will be a video of their wedding. His film is our film — the final edited version with music, live action,...
We can expect to see it on our UK screens 17th August.
To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia (Miriam Margolyes) would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex (Harriet Walker) has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ — the English ‘Beverley Hills’. Raif’s present to the happy couple will be a video of their wedding. His film is our film — the final edited version with music, live action,...
- 7/20/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Though it seems to have premiered a thousand years ago we’re still living in the shadow of Four Weddings and it’s one Funeral and the cinematic matrimonial magnet is still in full force.
No twelvemonth would be complete without a wedding themed rom-com and along with Noel Clarke’s The Knot and Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton’s The Big Wedding we have the latest film from Made in Dagenham and Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole, The Wedding Video.
You may have already guessed that the hook for this particular film is the use of camcorders to capture ceremony and the related fallout, something [Rec]3 does to a certain extent but that’s where the comparison ends.
I was on set last year and my interviews with Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, writer Tim Firth and director Nigel Cole will be up before the film’s release on the...
No twelvemonth would be complete without a wedding themed rom-com and along with Noel Clarke’s The Knot and Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton’s The Big Wedding we have the latest film from Made in Dagenham and Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole, The Wedding Video.
You may have already guessed that the hook for this particular film is the use of camcorders to capture ceremony and the related fallout, something [Rec]3 does to a certain extent but that’s where the comparison ends.
I was on set last year and my interviews with Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, writer Tim Firth and director Nigel Cole will be up before the film’s release on the...
- 7/10/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lucy Punch (Bad Teacher), Robert Webb (Peep Show) and Rufus Hound (Hounded) will star in Entertainment Film Distributors’ The Wedding Video.
Written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls), The Wedding Video sees a best man turn war reporter as he films his brother’s wedding as it crashes and burns before his eyes.
Nigel Cole (Made in Dagenham) is on board as director, with production currently underway in London.
The Wedding Video will be released in the U.K. next year.
Source: Variety...
Written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls), The Wedding Video sees a best man turn war reporter as he films his brother’s wedding as it crashes and burns before his eyes.
Nigel Cole (Made in Dagenham) is on board as director, with production currently underway in London.
The Wedding Video will be released in the U.K. next year.
Source: Variety...
- 8/29/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
U.S. audiences got the chance to know British actress Lucy Punch for her supporting roles in Bad Teacher opposite Cameron Diaz, Dinner for Schmucks and the coming-of-age comedy Take Me Home Tonight. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Punch continued to boost her growing fan base with a starring role in the upcoming romantic comedy The Wedding Video, about a best man who gives his friend and his bride a wedding video with comical results. Punch joined Rufus Hound and Robert Webb on the film with Nigel Cole directing. Punch also joined the FX TV movie Powers as one of its leads, Deena Pilgrim.
- 8/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
U.S. audiences got the chance to know British actress Lucy Punch for her supporting roles in Bad Teacher opposite Cameron Diaz, Dinner for Schmucks and the coming-of-age comedy Take Me Home Tonight. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Punch continued to boost her growing fan base with a starring role in the upcoming romantic comedy The Wedding Video, about a best man who gives his friend and his bride a wedding video with comical results. Punch joined Rufus Hound and Robert Webb on the film with Nigel Cole directing. Punch also joined the FX TV movie Powers as one of its leads, Deena Pilgrim.
- 8/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.