Brit indie feature film Evie, starring Holli Dempsey, Michael Smiley and Jay Taylor, has just wrapped a four week shoot on locations in Yorkshire and the Llyn Peninsula, Wales.
Directed by Dominic Brunt and Jamie Lundy (making his feature film debut). the brooding psychological horror thriller centres on Evie (Dempsey), who has been burdened with a dark secret for most of her life.
Witness to a family tragedy when they were younger and ripped from an idyllic life by the sea, both Evie and her older brother Tony (Taylor) were put into care. Twenty years later they are reunited, but something terrible from their past follows…
Evie also stars Honey Lundy, Liam McMahon, Joanne Mitchell and Danny-Lee Brunt. Says director Dominic Brunt:
I was drawn to the allegorical aspects of the story and the stunning locations of Yorkshire and the Llyn Peninsula. I’d known Jamie Lundy as a brilliant...
Directed by Dominic Brunt and Jamie Lundy (making his feature film debut). the brooding psychological horror thriller centres on Evie (Dempsey), who has been burdened with a dark secret for most of her life.
Witness to a family tragedy when they were younger and ripped from an idyllic life by the sea, both Evie and her older brother Tony (Taylor) were put into care. Twenty years later they are reunited, but something terrible from their past follows…
Evie also stars Honey Lundy, Liam McMahon, Joanne Mitchell and Danny-Lee Brunt. Says director Dominic Brunt:
I was drawn to the allegorical aspects of the story and the stunning locations of Yorkshire and the Llyn Peninsula. I’d known Jamie Lundy as a brilliant...
- 3/18/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Camera crews can be very heteronormative and there is a lot of toxic masculinity, argued Dp Michael Filocamo during the online Imago and Digital Orchard Foundation Diversity and Inclusion Roundtable at Camerimage. Also noting the current situation in Poland and even calling out the festival itself.
“As a queer cinematographer, I have experienced homophobia from the official Camerimage security guards at the official Camerimage venues,” he said, mentioning that other colleagues were spat on or forced to change accommodation upon arrival in Poland. But such behavior can be also experienced on set.
“Once, I had another camera assistant say to me: ‘Thank god it’s Friday and we don’t have to be around these pink people anymore.’ It creates anxiety,” he said. “We all know high-level queer DPs and they should come out, because we need to start talking about it openly. If there is one thing we learnt...
“As a queer cinematographer, I have experienced homophobia from the official Camerimage security guards at the official Camerimage venues,” he said, mentioning that other colleagues were spat on or forced to change accommodation upon arrival in Poland. But such behavior can be also experienced on set.
“Once, I had another camera assistant say to me: ‘Thank god it’s Friday and we don’t have to be around these pink people anymore.’ It creates anxiety,” he said. “We all know high-level queer DPs and they should come out, because we need to start talking about it openly. If there is one thing we learnt...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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