The film is a UK production, with Rory Kinnear and Emily Beecham in the voice cast.
Nicholas Parish’s UK feature The Old Man and The Land has been picked up for world sales by UK-based sales agent Reason8.
As announced earlier today, the film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Picks strand at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) in November.
A debut feature for UK filmmaker Parish, The Old Man and The Land centres on an old man working alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, as his children prove to be at once remote and controlling.
Nicholas Parish’s UK feature The Old Man and The Land has been picked up for world sales by UK-based sales agent Reason8.
As announced earlier today, the film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Picks strand at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Poff) in November.
A debut feature for UK filmmaker Parish, The Old Man and The Land centres on an old man working alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, as his children prove to be at once remote and controlling.
- 10/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The success of playfully impudent shows such as Girls and Fleabag continues to prove that the modern mid-twenties (and beyond) woman is still feeling a bit lost and even a bit p*ssed off. Much like Fleabag, Peter Mackie Burns’ cinematic offering Daphne drops straight into the heart of a frustrated London-based singleton, who attempts to navigate her career, sex and relationships against a bleak city backdrop.
Emily Beecham’s portrayal of the well-educated, abrasive and sexually/emotionally-detached Daphne is inarguably the core characteristic of the film around which everything else oscillates. Thankfully, she does a wholly convincing execution – delivering Daphne’s blunt lines as if a lack of patience and manners is part of her very being. By contrast, Geraldine James expertly plays the contrasting role of Daphne’s mother, battling cancer and newly interested in Buddhism and spirituality.
The contrast between Daphne’s rude rebukes and her mother...
Emily Beecham’s portrayal of the well-educated, abrasive and sexually/emotionally-detached Daphne is inarguably the core characteristic of the film around which everything else oscillates. Thankfully, she does a wholly convincing execution – delivering Daphne’s blunt lines as if a lack of patience and manners is part of her very being. By contrast, Geraldine James expertly plays the contrasting role of Daphne’s mother, battling cancer and newly interested in Buddhism and spirituality.
The contrast between Daphne’s rude rebukes and her mother...
- 1/22/2018
- by Olivia Haines
- The Cultural Post
A big-city thirtysomething, numbed by her endless pursuit of pleasure, finds her life turned around when she witnesses a violent crime
Fortunately or otherwise, this resembles something from TV, the award-winning 2016 comedy Fleabag written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, all about the unhappy, sexually adventurous and self-destructive woman in London: young, posh, white. In this film – written by Nico Mensinga and directed by Peter Mackie Burns, feature first-timers – it is Daphne, played with a potent and blank kind of restraint by Emily Beecham, who is on her own in the city; she has a demanding job as a chef in a busy restaurant, but Daphne is uninterested in that, her tiresome mother, or her clingy friends from uni. She’s more interested in sex with strangers, coke, alcohol and the pure delicious pleasure of not caring any more about other people or herself. It could be a pleasure that people...
Fortunately or otherwise, this resembles something from TV, the award-winning 2016 comedy Fleabag written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, all about the unhappy, sexually adventurous and self-destructive woman in London: young, posh, white. In this film – written by Nico Mensinga and directed by Peter Mackie Burns, feature first-timers – it is Daphne, played with a potent and blank kind of restraint by Emily Beecham, who is on her own in the city; she has a demanding job as a chef in a busy restaurant, but Daphne is uninterested in that, her tiresome mother, or her clingy friends from uni. She’s more interested in sex with strangers, coke, alcohol and the pure delicious pleasure of not caring any more about other people or herself. It could be a pleasure that people...
- 9/28/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A raw fiction debut that feels like a romantic comedy with all of the bullshit taken out, Peter Mackie Burns’ “Daphne” is a remarkably real and well-realized big screen version of an archetype that has given birth to some of the best new television on both sides of the pond: The self-destructive single girl. “I’ve sort of given up on people, haven’t I?” Daphne (Emily Beecham) rhetorically asks one of her few remaining friends as she stumbles through another night at the pub, slurping down a glass of whatever keeps the feelings away.
A brittle 31-year-old Londoner who wears some heavy emotional armor and has a major Moira Shearer thing going on, Daphne may enjoy the odd spot of coked up sex in the bathroom of her local bar, but she doesn’t need a man to complete her. On the contrary, she doesn’t need anyone to...
A brittle 31-year-old Londoner who wears some heavy emotional armor and has a major Moira Shearer thing going on, Daphne may enjoy the odd spot of coked up sex in the bathroom of her local bar, but she doesn’t need a man to complete her. On the contrary, she doesn’t need anyone to...
- 3/11/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: The Bureau Sales inks deal with fledgling French distributor Mag Distribution.
French outfit The Bureau Sales has closed deals on Daphne at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film has sold for France to Mag Distribution, the newly-launched distribution company set up by Richard Magnien, Emmanuel Agneray and Yann Gilbert.
The acquisition is part of the company’s debut slate which also includes Radu Jude’s 2016 Locarno premiere Scarred Hearts and Miwa Nishikawa’s Long Excuses, which premiered at Tiff last year.
Daphne has also sold to China with Bilibili. Previous deals closed on the title include Altitude for the UK and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film stars Emily Beecham as a 30-something woman living in London whose life enters a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the feature debut of director Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Berlin Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk. [link...
French outfit The Bureau Sales has closed deals on Daphne at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
The film has sold for France to Mag Distribution, the newly-launched distribution company set up by Richard Magnien, Emmanuel Agneray and Yann Gilbert.
The acquisition is part of the company’s debut slate which also includes Radu Jude’s 2016 Locarno premiere Scarred Hearts and Miwa Nishikawa’s Long Excuses, which premiered at Tiff last year.
Daphne has also sold to China with Bilibili. Previous deals closed on the title include Altitude for the UK and Cinemien for Benelux.
The film stars Emily Beecham as a 30-something woman living in London whose life enters a downward spiral after she witnesses a violent attack.
It marks the feature debut of director Peter Mackie Burns, who won a Berlin Golden Bear in 2005 for his short film Milk. [link...
- 2/14/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Peter Mackie Burns’ feature debut is being developed by The Bureau.
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring...
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring...
- 2/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
Kim Farrant is attached to direct a UK psychological thriller produced by Michael Winterbottom's company and a Us indie drama as well as developing an ambitious TV anthology series.
The Los Angeles-based director is delighted with the critical and audience responses to her debut film Strangerland, which Transmission launched on about 25 screens on June 11 after its Sydney Film Festival premiere.
The mystery drama starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving is set to open in the Us on July 10.
Alchemy (formerly Millennium Entertainment) will release the film scripted by Fiona Seres and Michael Kinirons and produced by Naomi Wenck and Macdara Kelleher in cinemas in 15 markets and simultaneously on VOD. She plans to attend the New York premiere.
Farrant is attached to direct Hush Money for Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton.s Revolution Films. The script by Brazilian-born English writer Nico Mensinga follows a groom who is bribed on his wedding day.
The Los Angeles-based director is delighted with the critical and audience responses to her debut film Strangerland, which Transmission launched on about 25 screens on June 11 after its Sydney Film Festival premiere.
The mystery drama starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving is set to open in the Us on July 10.
Alchemy (formerly Millennium Entertainment) will release the film scripted by Fiona Seres and Michael Kinirons and produced by Naomi Wenck and Macdara Kelleher in cinemas in 15 markets and simultaneously on VOD. She plans to attend the New York premiere.
Farrant is attached to direct Hush Money for Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton.s Revolution Films. The script by Brazilian-born English writer Nico Mensinga follows a groom who is bribed on his wedding day.
- 6/11/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Low budget production scheme selects 12 projects; hits diversity target.
Film London Microwave has announced a shortlist of 12 projects for the development stage of its next edition.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
• The Blue House, Patrick Dickinson (writer and director), Sophie Venner (producer)
• Butterfly Kisses, Greer Ellison (writer), Rafal Kapelinski (director), Merlin Merton and David Braithwaite (producers)
• Daphne’s Inferno, Nico Mensinga (writer) Peter Mackie Burns (director) Valentina Brazzini and Tristan Goligher (producers)
• Engaged, James Condon (writer) Adam Randall (director) Bennett McGhee and Matt Wilkinson (producers)
• Kill Her Witch, Faye Gilbert (writer and director), Yaw Basoah (producer)
• The New Thirty, Wendy Okoi-Obuli (writer), Remi Vaughan-Richards (director), Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (producer)
• Night Dances, Johnny Kenton (writer and director), Jo Allan (producer)
• The Opposite of Everything, Ruth Pickett (writer), Nour Wazzi ( director), Stephen Smith (producer)
• Punch, Ruth Ivo (writer and director), Rachel Wardlow (producer)
• Unsung, Ayndrilla Singharay (writer), Liam Creighton (director) Fiona Black (producer)
• The Visitor, Sebastian Godwin (writer...
Film London Microwave has announced a shortlist of 12 projects for the development stage of its next edition.
The shortlisted projects and teams are:
• The Blue House, Patrick Dickinson (writer and director), Sophie Venner (producer)
• Butterfly Kisses, Greer Ellison (writer), Rafal Kapelinski (director), Merlin Merton and David Braithwaite (producers)
• Daphne’s Inferno, Nico Mensinga (writer) Peter Mackie Burns (director) Valentina Brazzini and Tristan Goligher (producers)
• Engaged, James Condon (writer) Adam Randall (director) Bennett McGhee and Matt Wilkinson (producers)
• Kill Her Witch, Faye Gilbert (writer and director), Yaw Basoah (producer)
• The New Thirty, Wendy Okoi-Obuli (writer), Remi Vaughan-Richards (director), Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo (producer)
• Night Dances, Johnny Kenton (writer and director), Jo Allan (producer)
• The Opposite of Everything, Ruth Pickett (writer), Nour Wazzi ( director), Stephen Smith (producer)
• Punch, Ruth Ivo (writer and director), Rachel Wardlow (producer)
• Unsung, Ayndrilla Singharay (writer), Liam Creighton (director) Fiona Black (producer)
• The Visitor, Sebastian Godwin (writer...
- 12/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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