Exclusive: Mongrel International has bulked up its Berlin sales slate, taking international rights on Andrew Steggall’s feature debut.
Juliet Stevenson, London Critics’ Circle Young British Performer Of The Year Alex Lawther of The Imitation Game, Phénix Brossard and Finbar Lynch star in the drama, currently in post.
Departure takes place in the south of France as a mother and her teenage son break down a summer home that was one of the casualties of the woman’s crumbling marriage.
When an enigmatic local boy enters the scene it serves to further complicates their lives.
Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie will show buyers a sneak peak from the film. Peccadillo Pictures will distribute in the UK and Jour2Fete in France.
Pietro Greppi, Guillaume Tobo and Cora Palfrey produced the Motion Group Pictures and Connectic Studio project, co-funded by the BFI Film Fund and Amaro Films.
Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Georgia Oetker and Stephanie Keelan serve as as executive...
Juliet Stevenson, London Critics’ Circle Young British Performer Of The Year Alex Lawther of The Imitation Game, Phénix Brossard and Finbar Lynch star in the drama, currently in post.
Departure takes place in the south of France as a mother and her teenage son break down a summer home that was one of the casualties of the woman’s crumbling marriage.
When an enigmatic local boy enters the scene it serves to further complicates their lives.
Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie will show buyers a sneak peak from the film. Peccadillo Pictures will distribute in the UK and Jour2Fete in France.
Pietro Greppi, Guillaume Tobo and Cora Palfrey produced the Motion Group Pictures and Connectic Studio project, co-funded by the BFI Film Fund and Amaro Films.
Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Georgia Oetker and Stephanie Keelan serve as as executive...
- 1/22/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New films from Philippa Lowthorpe, Andrew Steggall, Jane Linfoot receive backing.
In its second round (April-June) of first feature awards, the BFI has backed Philippa Lowthorpe’s Sleeping Out, Andrew Steggall’s Departure and Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.
The awards are for film projects budgeted under £2m ($3.1m).
Sleeping Out will see Call the Midwife director and The Other Boleyn Girl writer-director Lowthorpe team with writer Stephen Butchard and producer Simon Lewis, with whom she also collaborated for BBC One drama series Five Daughters in 2010.
Set in Leeds, the drama tells the story of Jack and Toby, both 14, who live on the streets and dream of getting laid. When Jack falls in love with a murderer’s young girlfriend, it puts their lives in danger and tests their friendship to the limit.
Steggall, actor and theatre director of productions including Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat at the Old Vic Theatre starring Jeremy Irons, has previously...
In its second round (April-June) of first feature awards, the BFI has backed Philippa Lowthorpe’s Sleeping Out, Andrew Steggall’s Departure and Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.
The awards are for film projects budgeted under £2m ($3.1m).
Sleeping Out will see Call the Midwife director and The Other Boleyn Girl writer-director Lowthorpe team with writer Stephen Butchard and producer Simon Lewis, with whom she also collaborated for BBC One drama series Five Daughters in 2010.
Set in Leeds, the drama tells the story of Jack and Toby, both 14, who live on the streets and dream of getting laid. When Jack falls in love with a murderer’s young girlfriend, it puts their lives in danger and tests their friendship to the limit.
Steggall, actor and theatre director of productions including Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat at the Old Vic Theatre starring Jeremy Irons, has previously...
- 7/29/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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