Hebridean teenager goes global with film debut made after lockdown drama classes Brian Ferguson
A Hebridean teenager’s professional acting debut in a short film made on her home island during the pandemic has become a global sensation. © Franesca Taylor Coleman has made her professional acting debut in Danni the Champion.
Festivals in Tokyo, Venice, Chicago and Bondi Beach are among the events to show Danni the Champion, which 17-year-old Francesca Coleman Taylor filmed on Lewis just weeks after attending online acting classes during lockdown.
She plays a teenager frustrated with the slow pace of island life who is determined to take to the roads in her brother s car with Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting on its stereo.
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THE TURN OF THE
SCREW gets its highly anticipated nationwide
cinematic release on
21
January.
Opening at Rialto Newmarket and The
Capitol in Auckland, The Roxy in Wellington, and Alice
Cinemas in Christchurch, the film will then tour the country
throughout January and February.
Set on a
stage in modern day New Zealand, a young actress, Julia, is
a last minute replacement in a theatre production of the
Henry James classic THE TURN OF THE SCREW, for the lead who
suddenly pulled out a day before
opening.
Arriving late at
night, Julia must immediately go on stage and perform a
dress rehearsal to an empty auditorium. As she interacts
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