FAINTHEART
Faintheart is the first feature written by David Lemon alumni of the LSC
illustrious writers group.
The film's pitch was a winner in a new film competition run by Myspace.com
that allows users to add their own comments and ideas for the film as
well as additional cast members.
This new, exciting funding method has
helped the film gain much hype and the British Film industry is hoping
for a hit. The story revolves around Richard (Eddie Marsan, The
Illusionist, Happy-Go-Lucky), a passionate member of a Viking battle-reenactment
group, called the Bloody Broadswords. Although Richard is stuck in a boring
day job, on weekends he and his friends like to dress up as Viking warriors
and slug it out with rival groups.
Richard's wife Cath (Jessica Hynes—formerly Stevenson of Spaced
fame) kicks Richard out and wants a divorce after he misses too many important
family events. To make matters worse his young son Martin (Joseph Hamilton)
is being bullied, although his cute goth classmate Emily (Chloe Hesar)
thinks he’s kind of cool. Richard, our hero, must go on a quest
of the heart as he struggles to win Cath back with the help of his Norse
chums.
It has had largely positive reviews, having been reviewed in The Independent
and Variety. The Independent described the script as “charming”
and “chock-full of comic gems”, and one reviewer online exclaims
“Support the British film industry when they produce wee gems like
this it would be rude not to”. The film was premiered at the Edinburgh
film Festival to much acclaim on the closing night Gala and looks set
to be this years British smash hit.
Faintheart will be released in cinemas in the UK on September 26th
DAYLIGHT
ROBBERY
Paris Leonti has already had quite the formidable
film career, working with actors such as Ralph Fiennes, Christian Bale,
Colin Firth and even Steven Spielberg. He was not acting or directing
them, he was driving them to and from the sets they were working on.
Building contacts, getting advice, and now he is a fully-fledged writer-director
with a big film on his hands, Daylight Robbery.
The story is a nuts-and-bolts
heist movie about a group of East London football fans that use the World Cup
as a cover for a daring bank robbery.
The film is his third in a line of self-confessed rubbish films he had tried and succeeded to make over the past five years. But this is the first in a new experiment he and his producer (Nick O’hagan) have embarked on, using the American Indie ideas of InDigEnt (Independent Digital Entertainment: created by Gary Winwick and John Sloss—the system has been used in such films as, Personal Velocity, Pieces of April and Tadpole). They shoot it with under £500,000 using innovative digital technologies.
The film promises a new look at the much maligned heist movie and Leonti promises to keep it a British movie, filling it with ‘Britishness’ as he says. Something ‘classically shot and well performed’.
Daylight robbery will be released in cinemas in the UK on August 29th