International Premiere Partners Joining Include Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max EMEA, Lionsgate Play, SYN and Wavve London / Los Angeles – June 10, 2021 – Endeavor Content, Element Pictures ( The Favourite , Room , The Lobster ), Lenny Abrahamson .
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Conversations With Friends: Follow-up to Normal People begins filming in Belfast
Filming for Conversations With Friends, an adaption of the debut novel from Normal People author Sally Rooney, has begun in Northern Ireland
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Conversations With Friends began filming in Belfast on April 26 (Image: Sasha Lane/Instagram)
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How Lucy Pardee spots future film stars in the wild
What made Attack the Block or Bafta favourite Rocks so special? Lucy Pardee s uniquely anthropological brand of street casting
Bukky Bakray has been nominated for a BAFTA
Rocks is the little film that could. It felt like an industry coup even before it was nominated for a whopping eight Baftas (more than any other title) yesterday. Shot in London in 2018, with the lead cast populated by young people who had never acted before, with a story (by Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson) shaped around them, it’s a miracle of a film, I suggest to its casting director Lucy Pardee. “It is a miracle,” she says. “The further I get away from the making of it, the more I can see just how special it is.”