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Perth Now
03-06-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Daisy Edgar-Jones to mentor young filmmakers for BAFTA and EE's Set The Stage programme
Daisy Edgar-Jones will be working with young filmmakers for BAFTA and EE's Set The Stage 'Normal People' actress will be mentoring 16 talented teenage filmmakers chosen as they get the opportunity to join a film crew and produce a short well as Daisy's mentorship, the aspiring filmmakers will have the chance to work with industry professionals across storytelling, production, cinematography, costume design and experts mentoring the teens include BAFTA Nominated International Cinematographer Kit Fraser ('Under the Shadow', 'Kaos'), BAFTA Award-Winning Producer Rochelle Newman ('White Nanny Black Child', 'The Shadow Scholars'), BAFTA Breakthrough Storyteller Lauren Sequeira ('Domino Day', 'Gangs of London') and BAFTA Nominated Artistic Lead Paix Robinson ('Festival of Slaps', 'We Collide').The budding filmmakers, who all submitted an entry to take part in the campaign, were chosen based on their relevant skills, personal passion and curiosity, willingness to collaborate and the ability to deal with a long shoot, and how these could be supported through this will now take part in an immersive training programme run by the Young Film Academy (YFA), which will see them work together to craft their short film that is set to premiere next campaign comes off the back of research by EE that reveals a generational divide on career perceptions between parents and the project, EE is aiming to showcase the breadth of creative careers in the screen industries, demonstrating how teenagers can translate the soft and hard skills they have learned through engaging with social media, gaming and technology into a successful career in the film this summer, the participating teenagers take their filmmaking experience to the next level during an eight-day the presence of Daisy, they will bring their projects to life, as they run a full production shoot and put their new valuable skills to the test in their first steps into a future Jeavons, Marketing Communications Director at EE, said: "EE is dedicated to unleashing learning from the classroom and demonstrating how technology can inspire young minds and present new opportunities."Through EE's 'Set The Stage', we are proud to be guiding this group of talented young filmmakers through the process of making a real film, demonstrating how they can turn their interests and passions into a profession."Lisa Prime, Head of Children and Young People's Programme at BAFTA, said: "At BAFTA, we aim to ignite the passion of young creatives, encouraging them to explore the variety of careers on offer in the screen industries."We're thrilled to work with EE on the launch of 'Set The Stage' and see the opportunities it offers to the filmmakers involved."Cultivating emerging talent and establishing a future generation of storytellers is essential for the longevity of our industry."
Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Hallow Road
Stephen Knight's 2013 thriller Locke gave us Tom Hardy, a car, a mobile phone and the not (on paper), wildly exciting prospect of a cement pour and generated from those sparse ingredients enough tension to trigger a panic attack. Hallow Road, directed by Babak Anvari, employs the same few elements, only – and with apologies to concrete enthusiasts – with even higher stakes: at the other end of the phone line is a panicked girl and the body of a young woman she's just run over in the dead of night on a forest road. Can her parents reach her in time, is the woman still alive, and will the trio make the right decisions along the way? If you don't immediately assume the answer to at least one of those is 'no', you've not seen Anvari's terrific debut Under the Shadow, which unleashed a malevolent djinn on a mum and daughter in wartorn Tehran. The British-Iranian filmmaker does not do happy families. And this taut morality tale even adds a jittery edge of superstition and folky horror to the mix. It opens with a deceptively serene tableau: a half-eaten stew on the kitchen table of a rural home; two parents – Rosamund Pike's Maddie and Matthew Rhys's Frank – asleep in separate rooms at 2am. Then Maddie's phone rings and the panicked voice of the pair's 18-year-old daughter Alice (Megan McDonnell) fills in the gaps: there's been an argument, Alice has stormed off in dad's car and hit a young woman in the woods. The British-Iranian filmmaker does not do happy families The screenplay, by first-timer William Gillies, seeds the scenario with tensions from the get-go. Why hasn't Maddie serviced her car, grumbles Frank. Whose fault was the argument in the first place? Then we're strapped in and racing to the woods – 40 minutes away – as Maddie, a paramedic, tries to talk her daughter through CPR over speakerphone and the het-up Frank simmers behind the wheel. By keeping the camera in the vehicle, hauntingly lit with the blur of passing houses and the glow of the mobile phone, Hallow Road invites you to fill the scene at the other end of the line with a shadowy menace that the final stretch really delivers on. And there's some truly whelp-inducing sound design thrown in as the panicking Alice attempts resuscitation. But the crux of the drama lies with the two parents, played with real feeling by Pike and Rhys. You can sense how their fraying marriage deprives their shared concerns for their daughter of any unity; how the miles are clocking down more slowly than their cortisol levels are cranking up. Pike, in particular, is terrific as a woman torn between her instincts as a mother and a medical professional – two caregiving roles suddenly in conflict. How far would you go to protect your child? Hopefully it'll never need to be as far as this.
Geek Tyrant
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Intense Trailer for Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys's Psychological Thriller HALLOW ROAD — GeekTyrant
Universal has released the trailer for a upcoming psychological thriller titled Hallow Road , with stars Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl ) and Matthew Rhys ( The Americans ). In the film, two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road. The movie was directed by Babak Anvari ( Under the Shadow, I Came By ) from a script written by William Gillies. It also stars Megan McDonnell ( Normal People ). Anvari is also attached to direct a new Cloverfield movie that is said to be a direct sequel to the original 2008 film. The psychological thriller will be released in UK theaters on May 16th. US distribution has not yet been set. It looks like a super intense and unsettling movie.
