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Cannes veteran plans Shell.Inspired by the beauty of his native Scotland, writer-director Scott Grahams third short, Native Son, screened as part of Critic
stanley cup s Week at Cannes in 2010. In it, Sean Harris plays a lonely farm labourer who is ostracised by his local community, forcing him to an extreme, heart-stopping measure. Graham is now working on his debut feature, Shell a kind of road movie鈥?a roadside movie , which started out as his second short and has been developed into a feature with help from the Binger Lab in Amsterdam among others. This is a progression of the short, he explains. Its still set in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere with a teenage girl giving people fuel to move on with their lives while she cannot. But everything else has changed. Set to star Joseph Mawle as the girls father, and produced by Margaret Matheson and David Smith, Shell has been fully financed at $1.6m 拢1m by the UK Film Council, Creative Scotland and ZDF/Arte. Right now, Graham is working for the Scottish Forestry Commission he takes labouring jobs between gigs while he waits to start the Shell shoot in the Scottish Highlands in October
stanley cup . Graham, 36, started as a writer before he moved into f
stanley italy ilm and feels a connection with the land, and with the films of Terrence Malick and Bruno Dumont. As a film-maker, though, youve got to try to do something new, he says. Or else theres no point. Contact: Sophie Dolan - sophie@casarotto.co.ukTopicsDirectorsStars of Tomorrow Flvo Johnny Depp not too far away from quitting acting
Dir: Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Spain, 2016, 126 minsA dark, not quite by-the-book police procedural thriller, May God Save Us has a distinct touch of stop-me-if-youve-heard-this in its observation that some cops can be as disturbed as the criminals theyre pursuing. A distinct shift for Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen following his acclaimed Stockholm 2013 , his third feature has a confident energy that should make for healthy business when released domestically by Warners in late October following a San Sebastian debut - especially given high-profile leads Antonio de la Torre and Roberto 脕lamo, the posters main selling point.Much of the film feels as if it was assembled from a Maverick Cops For Dummies manualHowever, without the distinct geographical and vis
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