Director Alicia McDonald
Cast Angourie Rice, Spike Fearn, Minnie Driver, Phil Wang, Prasanna Puwanarajah
Producer Tim Bevan, Olivier Kaempfer
Production Company Working Title Films, Focus Features
Theatrical Release: Summer 2025
PRESS
Deadline - 'Mare of Eastown' Star Angourie Rice & Spike Fearn Leading UK-Set Romcom 'CC:Emily' From Focus Heatures, Working Title
Director Georgia Parris
Cast Bobbi Jene Smith, Phoebe Nicholls, Madeleine Worrall & Peter Singh
Producer Emma Duffy
Choreographer Maxine Doyle
Production Company Small Town Films
Discovery Award & Breakthrough Producer longlist nominee - BIFA 2019.
Inspiration came in the form of Abstract painter Sonya Delaunay, Ernst Kirchner, as well as looking at Charleston and Monk's House - the famed home and meeting place of the Bloomsbury Artists.
I hoped to demonstrate how we create a strong sense of Mari ' The Artist'. The interiors I referenced were way earlier than the period we are looking at, but I think they serves as a good reference in terms of a creative space or the home of an artist. The Bloomsbury group embraced colour, pattern, print and also textiles. I think that given the age of the location, its not a bad thing to be looking to some older references like this, whilst still making sure it doesn’t look overly period, or TOO ARTY!
We attempted to resolve how we marry the very bright modern feeling paintings with a character in her eighties! Sonya Delaunay is great inspiration for this.
The idea for Mari's house was basically to avoid granny-cliches and pale pastels - and to embrace colour in the same way that the character does in her artwork.
Kitchen
I thought about TERACOTTA walls, that would work in harmony with the vast amounts of cream which exist in the kitchen, but are still very much in our 'Mari' palette. All sets will feature vibrant accent colours such as pink and turqouise - in a similar way to the paintings
Lounge
Initial thoughts were to go with an Ochre which is bold and yet a colour that can often be found on the walls of many period home. As a secondary option however, we have developed a vibrant/jade green option, which perhaps feels more enegrgising, and would be better suited for the dance scene.
Bedroom
This will be a bold pink - not a wishy-washy pastel!
The idea for Mari's house is basically to avoid granny-cliches and pale pastels - and to embrace colour in the same way that the character does in her artwork.
DETAIL
In terms of detail in the house we aimed to create a sense of 'The Artist' - ie pots of brushes, paint in evidence, lots of art work on the walls, interesting textiles etc.
In addition, we captured the sense of 'thriftyness' that that generation had - 'life hacks' that we simply cannot comprehend today - saving crosswords, recycling or finding a new purpose for EVERYTHING, the yoghurt cups catching water drips - its that whole wartime mentality, which will disappear forever with that generation. I think this is something we tried to reflect in the set - in the sense that Mari has spent many years in this house, and had kept, collected, and recycled all sorts of things. As mentioned previously I wanted the house to feel eclectic, without getting too bohemian. I think it is imperative that there is that 'layer' of ephemera to really give it a lived in feel. I also think plants were helpful.
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Having grown to understand Newcastle in a short space of time, I was inspired by the age and scale of the buildings. This became a daily find for the best locations that worked for the film. We often used old film photographs to seek the look of a location.
My exploration and understanding with colour and specifically chroma colour continued in this project as we were working monochromaticly with black and white. Black being the most essential colour of them all. Working with materials, shadows and natural highlights, Gerard and I were sharing all our images through a black and white lens. In black and white I found it can be easier to control tone and the precision of detail. The focus was on what drama it would add to the everyday environments which was prevalent here. For me, I was also interested in how a certain material might present a gloss and/or absorb the light.
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A psychological thriller that’s dripping in sweat, tears, and testosterone: the story of Simon, an unhappy, unambitious office worker whose life is gradually taken over by Terry, his new, very hands-on personal trainer who reveals himself to be more committed - and more dangerous - than Simon could have imagined.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Thrill Strand - World premiere
BIFA Nominee
Dir-Scr ; Gerard Johnson
Prod; Matthew James Wilkinson, Ed Barratt, Richard Wylie,
Leads; Cavan Clerkin, Craig Fairbrass
( as Supervising Art Director)
The challenges of making a made up Peter Strickland world was one everyone involved wanted to make.
Within a tight schedule and budget I was interested in getting the best out of a few locations. The dress was the main character and all other objects became moments around the dress. Having a haunted red dress as a central point was the basis for building the shop floor and then the interiors.
We developed the interiors after we became interested in the surreal and absurd. We first decided to use Croydon as the vortex for the film.
Director: Peter Strickland
Writer: Peter Strickland
Producer: Andrew Starke
Production Designer: Paki Smith
Production Company: Rook Films
Cast: Marianne Jean Baptiste, Fatma Mohammad, Barry Adamson
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
World Premiere Toronto International Film Festival 2018
UK Release - Curzon -29 June 2019
Soon…
Production Company /BFI / Fireheart Films / Greenacre /
DEM Productions / Atticist Productions
Writer/Director: Marco Alessi
Producers: Ksenia Harwood and Lily Slydel
Creative Producer: Sandy Powell
Director of Photography: Tim Sidell
Costume: Timothy Gibbons
HMUA: Billie McKenzie
Music and Sound Design: Tom Foskett-Barnes
Editor: Jo Lewandowska (at Okay Studios)
Colour: Duncan Russell
1st AC: Rose Lucas
Trinity, 2021
A FILM BY
HETAIN PATEL
WRITTEN BY
HETAIN PATEL & IN-SOOK CHAPPELL
PRODUCED BY
SOPHIE NEAVE
CAST
VIDYA PATEL - MINA
SUDHA BHUCHAR - SAMANYA (MUM)
RAFFIE JULIEN - AMY
2k Digital Film with 5.1 Surround Sound
23 Mins 26 Sec
Working with dance, martial arts and sign language collaborators, and with a specially composed score Trinity represents Hetain Patel’s most significant and developed film work so far.
Working with Hetains personal story and aspirations to be make superhero films, this was a true collaboration in making this both authentic and magical.
I worked on the London bit of the 1st Episode.
It is a comedy following an Australian woman whose life is turned upside down, and has to confront the truths from her past.
Production Company: Merman
Writer // Sarah Kendall
Director // Shaun Wilson
Producer // Nicole O'Donohue , Clelia Mountford, Sharon Horgan
Vest was a project that was both heavy and lighthearted. The mute boy is contrasted with the stimulation of the family and his surroundings. Samir and I wanted to create the tension, doing so through a real and vibrant world. With the core of this being rooted in family, the house is their home and escape at the same time. We wanted to reflect that in humour and intrigue across the look, framing and textures within the film.
Dir: Samir Mallal
Producer: Sarah Tognazzi
Production Company: Independent films
There She Goes was written by Shaun Pye and is about a severely learning disabled 9-year-old girl Rosie (Miley Locke), her dad Simon (David Tennant), mum Emily (Jessica Hynes) and brother Ben (Edan Hayhurst). All the stories and characters are drawn from the real life experience of writer Shaun Pye, whose daughter was born in 2006 with an extremely rare and, to date, undiagnosed chromosomal disorder.
Each episode shines a light on day-to-day life with Rosie – unique experiences from simply trying to take her to the park to trying to explain that everyday isn’t her birthday. A second timeline in 2006 shows the effect having a severely disabled child had on the family unit, how it threatened to disintegrate but ultimately brought them even closer.
THE OWNERS
WITH MAISIE WILLIAMS, SYLVESTER MCCOY, RITA TUSHINGHAM
IAN KENNY, ANDREW ELLIS, JAKE CURRAN AND STACHA HICKS
DIRECTOR : JULIUS BERG
WRITTEN BY : MATHIEU GOMPEL & JULIUS BERG
DOP : DAVID UNGARO
PRODUCER : ALAIN DE LA MATA
PRODUCTION : WILD BUNCH / BLUE LIGHT / XYZ / LOGICAL PICTURES
(as Art Director)
Early on in the process, we started to explore a colour scheme. The result was to keep the colours represented, to what existed. We were developing our ideas from the feelings of being repressed and controlled and the scheme reflected this.
I was interested in making the subject matter flow through the religious details and symbols.
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Director: Sebastián Lelio
Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Designer: Sarah Finlay
Element Picture
When working out the palette for Endo, we talked about using bold and block colours. I wanted to be subtle and to keep the rhythm light as the subject is hard enough. Injecting a colour with hints was important part of the process.
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Jaq's in pain. But she also wants to have sex. Which should be relatively straightforward, but Jaq has endometriosis.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Dare Strand - World premiere
http://www.bluebirdproductions.co.uk/endo
Directed By
Alice Seabright
Screenplay By
Elaine Gracie
Produced By
Alexandra Blue & Kate Phibbs
( as Art Director)
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
Designer: Sarah Finlay
The Bureau
(As Art Director)
Director Toby MacDonald
Producer Luke Morris
Production Company Film4
