Jaime Winstone to lead cast for Rose Tremain adaptation.
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
- 3/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
London -- The London Independent Film Festival, one of a slew of capital-set film festivals, is ramping up its ambitions ahead of next year's April event.
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
- 12/7/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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