In his latest podcast/interview, Kevin sits down for an exclusive chat with writer/director Roland Manookian (a name I am sure you will all have heard of) and up-and-coming actor Shane McCormick. They join Nerdly to chat about their new flick The Sun Also Rises, starring Gina Jones, Shane McCormick, Craig Fairbrass, Geoff Bell, Simon Manyonda, Eddie Webber, Josh Witcher, which is currently in post-production and will be dropping later this year.
‘The Sun Also Rises’ is the story of a woman (Raye) trapped in an abusive relationship with (Frank). The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects all that come into contact with it.
‘The Sun Also Rises’ is the story of a woman (Raye) trapped in an abusive relationship with (Frank). The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects all that come into contact with it.
- 8/9/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Move Mountains Productions have released the official trailer for new film The Sun Also Rises, due for release in Summer. The Sun Also Rises is the directorial debut of a full-length film by Roland Manookian and is produced by Shane McCormick, Tom Gordon (Good Shout film collective founder), Josh Witcher and Franky Lankester (Ron Hopper’s Misfortune).
The film focuses on Raye (Gina Jones), a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects everyone who comes into contact with it.
The Sun Also Rises is a beautiful film with an ultimately positive message of redemption; it pays homage to the strength of the human spirit. The film draws inspiration from the Ernest Hemmingway book Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, portraying Raye’s journey through the lens of a metaphorical bull run. Producer Shane McCormick...
The film focuses on Raye (Gina Jones), a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects everyone who comes into contact with it.
The Sun Also Rises is a beautiful film with an ultimately positive message of redemption; it pays homage to the strength of the human spirit. The film draws inspiration from the Ernest Hemmingway book Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, portraying Raye’s journey through the lens of a metaphorical bull run. Producer Shane McCormick...
- 5/24/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Dani Dyer, star of British reality smash Love Island, is in talks to star in a feature film that deals with race, politics, religion and sexuality from a fledgling, socially conscious production collective.
The British actress, who is the daughter of EastEnders and The Football Factory star Danny Dyer, has been lined up to star in O31, from Roccowinks Productions, set up by Joshua Whincup and Miriam Ahmed. It would mark her first leading feature role, having had small roles in films such as We Still Kill The Old Way, and comes as her star is rising thanks to the ratings success of the ITV2 format. Last year, she filmed low-budget horror film Heckle alongside Clark Gable III, grandson of the Gone with the Wind actor.
O31, which is currently in pre-production, sees Dyer play Nancy Francis, a young girl suffering with grief following her mother’s murder and...
The British actress, who is the daughter of EastEnders and The Football Factory star Danny Dyer, has been lined up to star in O31, from Roccowinks Productions, set up by Joshua Whincup and Miriam Ahmed. It would mark her first leading feature role, having had small roles in films such as We Still Kill The Old Way, and comes as her star is rising thanks to the ratings success of the ITV2 format. Last year, she filmed low-budget horror film Heckle alongside Clark Gable III, grandson of the Gone with the Wind actor.
O31, which is currently in pre-production, sees Dyer play Nancy Francis, a young girl suffering with grief following her mother’s murder and...
- 7/2/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Info on a new surreal thriller that's hitting DVD and VOD today landed in our inbox so of course we're passing on the news. Along with the usual details and a few photos, we have a look at the film's artwork and trailer.
From the Press Release:
BrinkVision releases the critically acclaimed thriller The Looking Glass on VOD and Special Edition DVD November 19, 2013. Colin Downey's The Looking Glass is being called a new underground cult classic with a creepy atmosphere, brilliant acting from Patrick O'Donnell, and cinematography that is twisted to watch.
The film co-stars Natalia Kostrzewa, Eddie Webber, and Sanne Hulst.
Synopsis:
Paul is a troubled young man who lives in a rural house with his pregnant girlfriend, Claire. Paul's world is turned upside down one night when Claire's sinister, predatory mother, Agnes, arrives at their house to visit. Paul is instinctively afraid of this witch-like woman who...
From the Press Release:
BrinkVision releases the critically acclaimed thriller The Looking Glass on VOD and Special Edition DVD November 19, 2013. Colin Downey's The Looking Glass is being called a new underground cult classic with a creepy atmosphere, brilliant acting from Patrick O'Donnell, and cinematography that is twisted to watch.
The film co-stars Natalia Kostrzewa, Eddie Webber, and Sanne Hulst.
Synopsis:
Paul is a troubled young man who lives in a rural house with his pregnant girlfriend, Claire. Paul's world is turned upside down one night when Claire's sinister, predatory mother, Agnes, arrives at their house to visit. Paul is instinctively afraid of this witch-like woman who...
- 11/19/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes the short film “Hold Your Fire,” release details for The Black Dahlia Haunting, trailers for Truth or Dare and The Shadows, and much more:
Full Short Film “Hold Your Fire”: “Twitch Film proudly presents the online premiere of artist-turned-filmmaker Wes Benscoter’s debut short film, Hold Your Fire, exclusively at Twitch Film.
A ghostly soldier comes face to face with this grim reality of his war-torn existence on the battlefield… and beyond! Assaulting international audiences at festivals from Montreal’s Fantasia to Sitges, Fantasporto, A Night of Horror, and Dead by Dawn, to sending domestic shivers up spines at Screamfest, Boston Underground, and the New York City Horror Film Festival, Twitch Film now takes the mantle in offering Wes Benscoter’s mini-masterpiece to its largest audience ever.
A twenty-year veteran of horrific illustration,...
Full Short Film “Hold Your Fire”: “Twitch Film proudly presents the online premiere of artist-turned-filmmaker Wes Benscoter’s debut short film, Hold Your Fire, exclusively at Twitch Film.
A ghostly soldier comes face to face with this grim reality of his war-torn existence on the battlefield… and beyond! Assaulting international audiences at festivals from Montreal’s Fantasia to Sitges, Fantasporto, A Night of Horror, and Dead by Dawn, to sending domestic shivers up spines at Screamfest, Boston Underground, and the New York City Horror Film Festival, Twitch Film now takes the mantle in offering Wes Benscoter’s mini-masterpiece to its largest audience ever.
A twenty-year veteran of horrific illustration,...
- 6/16/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Title: Eradicate Cast: Luke Newberry, Eddie Webber, Johnny Palmiero, Rachel Bright Director: William McGregor Writer / Exec Producer: Tom Nash Producer: Ben Burdock Editor: Iain Whitewright DoP: Adam Eherington More info: http://www.williammcgregor.co.uk/
Created for the Sci-fi London 48 hour International Film Festival. Eradicate is a short film that explores what it means to be alive and how hard it can be to say goodbye.
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Created for the Sci-fi London 48 hour International Film Festival. Eradicate is a short film that explores what it means to be alive and how hard it can be to say goodbye.
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- 5/11/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Few countries have a handle on matters of immigration, but a combination of free market profit-seeking and nanny-state regulations has resulted in a singular mess in Great Britain, as Ken Loach illustrates in his tough-minded slice of life picture "It's a Free World."
The ironically-titled movie, screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, focuses on a spirited young English woman who becomes inured to the fate of immigrants while working for a big recruiting agency. Battered by her own work experience, she starts up a new agency, but the opportunity to make big money by exploiting the desperate and vulnerable leads to corruption and violence.
Loach is in excellent form making the most of a shrewd screenplay by Paul Laverty and drawing a winning performance from newcomer Kierston Wareing as a brassy but misguided entrepreneur. The film should play well when it is telecast on Channel 4 in the U.K., and prospects are bright for its theatrical release elsewhere, not least because the dilemma it profiles is universal.
Cinematographer Nigel Willoughby and editor Jonathan Morris contribute much to the film's brisk energy while composer George Fenton's score, using alto sax and viola to great effect, illuminates its changing moods.
Immigrants enter the U.K. from all over the world, legally and illegally, and many of them are at the mercy of recruitment agencies that, if not entirely criminal, have dubious credentials. At one of them, Angie (Wareing) has a knack for placing workers into jobs but gets no respect from her male coworkers, who mostly see her as sexual fodder.
When complaining gets her fired, Angie convinces roommate Rose (Juliet Ellis), a college graduate who works at a call center, that they should go into business for themselves. Angie has a way with men, so she makes the rounds drumming up business while Rose works the phone and the Internet.
No matter how well educated people may be in their home countries, qualifications are irrelevant and the only work available is drudgery. Angie and Rose make contracts with builders, caterers, packagers, and others, for a given number of workers. Then they contract with the immigrants and send them jammed into vans for a day's work.
The film provides an urgent snapshot of one small part of a big problem, and offers a memorably tragic character in Angie. She goes nose-to-nose with tough-guy employers and fights for every inch of her place in the world. But she can't keep a relationship with a smart and caring Polish man (Leslaw Zurek), and the more things get out of hand the more callous she becomes and the more willing to flout the law.And while chasing her materialistic goals, she is a single mother whose son Jamie (Joe Siffleet) is in trouble at school and whose father, Geoff (Colin Coughlin) is a retiree who recalls when working people were paid more respect.
That's a time that has little place in the world sketched by Loach and Laverty. They offer no answers in this vivid and troublesome film, but then there probably aren't any.
IT'S A FREE WORLD
Pathe Distribution
Sixteen Films, Film4
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Executive producer: Ulrich Felsberg
Director of photography: Nigel Willoughby
Production designer: Fergus Clegg
Music: George Fenton
Costume designer: Carole K. Fraser
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Cast:
Angie: Kierston Wareing
Rose: Juliet Ellis
Karol: Leslaw Zurek
Jamie: Joe Siffleet
Geoff: Colin Coughlin
Cathy: Maggie Hussey
Andy: Raymond Mearns
Mahmoud: Davoud Rastgau
Mahmoud's wife: Mahin Aminnia
Children: Shadeh and Sheeva Kavousian
Derek: Frank Gilhooley
Tony: David Doyle
Company directors: Eddie Webber, Johnny Palmiero
Angry worker: Faruk Pruti
Headmistress: Jackie Robinson Brown
Attacker: Miro Somers
Care team: Neal Barry, Mick Connolly, Sian Wheldon
Polish translator: Malgorzata Zawadzka
Ukrainian translators: Marina Chykalovets, Oksana Gayvas
Motorbike riders: Abbi Collins, Julie Maynard
No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes...
VENICE, Italy -- Few countries have a handle on matters of immigration, but a combination of free market profit-seeking and nanny-state regulations has resulted in a singular mess in Great Britain, as Ken Loach illustrates in his tough-minded slice of life picture "It's a Free World."
The ironically-titled movie, screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, focuses on a spirited young English woman who becomes inured to the fate of immigrants while working for a big recruiting agency. Battered by her own work experience, she starts up a new agency, but the opportunity to make big money by exploiting the desperate and vulnerable leads to corruption and violence.
Loach is in excellent form making the most of a shrewd screenplay by Paul Laverty and drawing a winning performance from newcomer Kierston Wareing as a brassy but misguided entrepreneur. The film should play well when it is telecast on Channel 4 in the U.K., and prospects are bright for its theatrical release elsewhere, not least because the dilemma it profiles is universal.
Cinematographer Nigel Willoughby and editor Jonathan Morris contribute much to the film's brisk energy while composer George Fenton's score, using alto sax and viola to great effect, illuminates its changing moods.
Immigrants enter the U.K. from all over the world, legally and illegally, and many of them are at the mercy of recruitment agencies that, if not entirely criminal, have dubious credentials. At one of them, Angie (Wareing) has a knack for placing workers into jobs but gets no respect from her male coworkers, who mostly see her as sexual fodder.
When complaining gets her fired, Angie convinces roommate Rose (Juliet Ellis), a college graduate who works at a call center, that they should go into business for themselves. Angie has a way with men, so she makes the rounds drumming up business while Rose works the phone and the Internet.
No matter how well educated people may be in their home countries, qualifications are irrelevant and the only work available is drudgery. Angie and Rose make contracts with builders, caterers, packagers, and others, for a given number of workers. Then they contract with the immigrants and send them jammed into vans for a day's work.
The film provides an urgent snapshot of one small part of a big problem, and offers a memorably tragic character in Angie. She goes nose-to-nose with tough-guy employers and fights for every inch of her place in the world. But she can't keep a relationship with a smart and caring Polish man (Leslaw Zurek), and the more things get out of hand the more callous she becomes and the more willing to flout the law.And while chasing her materialistic goals, she is a single mother whose son Jamie (Joe Siffleet) is in trouble at school and whose father, Geoff (Colin Coughlin) is a retiree who recalls when working people were paid more respect.
That's a time that has little place in the world sketched by Loach and Laverty. They offer no answers in this vivid and troublesome film, but then there probably aren't any.
IT'S A FREE WORLD
Pathe Distribution
Sixteen Films, Film4
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Executive producer: Ulrich Felsberg
Director of photography: Nigel Willoughby
Production designer: Fergus Clegg
Music: George Fenton
Costume designer: Carole K. Fraser
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Cast:
Angie: Kierston Wareing
Rose: Juliet Ellis
Karol: Leslaw Zurek
Jamie: Joe Siffleet
Geoff: Colin Coughlin
Cathy: Maggie Hussey
Andy: Raymond Mearns
Mahmoud: Davoud Rastgau
Mahmoud's wife: Mahin Aminnia
Children: Shadeh and Sheeva Kavousian
Derek: Frank Gilhooley
Tony: David Doyle
Company directors: Eddie Webber, Johnny Palmiero
Angry worker: Faruk Pruti
Headmistress: Jackie Robinson Brown
Attacker: Miro Somers
Care team: Neal Barry, Mick Connolly, Sian Wheldon
Polish translator: Malgorzata Zawadzka
Ukrainian translators: Marina Chykalovets, Oksana Gayvas
Motorbike riders: Abbi Collins, Julie Maynard
No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes...
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