Exclusive: Producers Andrew Bendel and Alistair Maclean-Clark of Blue Horizon Productions have optioned the memoir Sea Dragons, Yvonne Foley’s story of how she believed she had been abandoned in Liverpool by her Chinese father as a child only to find out many years later that he and other sailors had been deported.
Foley only discovered later in life that her natural father, who was a sailor from Shanghai, had been blacklisted for demanding equality of treatment with British sailors and was prevented from coming back to the UK.
The story was first told in BBC online magazine article Looking for my Shanghai Father, and an exhibition about the Chinese sailors, Dragons of the Pool, was organized by Yvonne and Charles Foley and held in a Liverpool gallery.
Liverpool-based playwright and emerging screenwriter Lizzie Nunnery is penning the screenplay. Her works have been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,...
Foley only discovered later in life that her natural father, who was a sailor from Shanghai, had been blacklisted for demanding equality of treatment with British sailors and was prevented from coming back to the UK.
The story was first told in BBC online magazine article Looking for my Shanghai Father, and an exhibition about the Chinese sailors, Dragons of the Pool, was organized by Yvonne and Charles Foley and held in a Liverpool gallery.
Liverpool-based playwright and emerging screenwriter Lizzie Nunnery is penning the screenplay. Her works have been shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
With two major Us productions set to film in Ni this year, Northern Ireland Screen are focusing on bringing local talent and productions to this year's Cannes Film Festival revealing five new home-grown productions in the works. The screen agency's profile is currently at an all-time high amongst the global film-making community. New titles include; 'Paddy Mayne', an action drama penned by Richard Crawford (The Abduction Club) and produced by Alistair Maclean-Clark (The War Bride, Octane, Heartbreak Hotel, Arn), 'Teenage Kicks', produced by Michael Kelly, Pete Foott is directing with Spence Wright (Red Mist) and John Cairns screenwriting; 'Jump', the creation of 'Raw' writer Lisa McGee with Brendan Byrne on board to produce and director Kieron J. Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy); director Tom Collins (Kings) is planning the adaptation of 'Reading in the Dark' - based on Seamus Deane's award winning novel; and 'Parabellum', produced by Colin...
- 5/14/2009
- IFTN
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