All Features articles – Page 321
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FeaturesJorn Threlfall, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Represented by Outsider in the commercials world, where he is highly successful on the international stage, writer-director Jorn Threlfall is late to cinema but states: “I’m ready for the big step to features.”
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FeaturesMatthew Orton, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Matthew Orton’s first feature script is called Clean, and its drama unfolds outside London skyscraper The Shard, 400 feet off the ground. Clearly Orton has lofty ambitions.
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Farhana Bhula, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: Producer Richard Holmes hired Farhana Bhula on Amit Gupta’s Jadoo while she was working at Google but looking for a break into film (she’d helped set up the Watersprite festival for student films while at Cambridge University).
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FeaturesMarnie Dickens, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Marnie Dickens is a writer who is very much in demand, and this is her year.
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FeaturesOscar Sharp, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Oscar Sharp’s heart-breaking Bafta-nominated short about terminal illness, The Karman Line, stars Olivia Colman as a mother who finds herself levitating from her small terraced house.
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FeaturesDaniel Emmerson, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: Londoner Daniel Emmerson started out working as a location warden on National Treasure before moving onto production running on Ben Drew’s Ill Manors.
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FeaturesNick Rowland, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Nick Rowland has consistently impressed as a writer-director.
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FeaturesAndy Brunskill, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCER: “There’s a part of every creative meeting where everyone gets excited and runs wild,” says Andy Brunskill. “Then there’s one person who goes away to do the sums and try to make it work, and that’s why I called my company SUMS Film & Media.”
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FeaturesDan Kokotajlo, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER-DIRECTOR: Dan Kokotajlo — the surname hails from a Ukrainian grandfather who fled the Nazis for Manchester — used to make hip-hop music and paint; moderately successful, he was signed to a label.
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FeaturesRichard Galazka, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: Richard Galazka started writing two years ago when he was doing a five-month season in rep as an actor at the Theatre By The Lake, Keswick.
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FeaturesCharlie Covell, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
WRITER: “I’ve had a good year,” says Charlie Covell. “I could be hit by a bus and I’d still think I had a good run.”
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FeaturesBrian Vernel, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Fresh off the run of the Matthew Warchus-directed Future Conditional at London’s Old Vic — which also marked Warchus’s first season as the theatre’s artistic director — Brian Vernel is set to transfer across the road to the Young Vic in December when he’ll lead the cast of Barbarians.
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FeaturesBilly Howle, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Billy Howle is an intense young actor impressing audiences and casting directors alike with his talent and quiet determination.
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FeaturesAlex Lawther, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Alex Lawther impressed last year playing the young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, winning a UK Critics’ Circle award for young British performer of the year.
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FeaturesBen Hardy, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama graduate and upcoming superhero Ben Hardy is already experiencing the joys of a varied career.
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FeaturesNaomi Scott, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Singer, songwriter and actor Naomi Scott (www.naomiscottmusic.com) was born and raised in Hounslow with an Indian mother and a “proper London boy” father, yet she began her acting career in Los Angeles where she fronted the hit Disney show Lemonade Mouth.
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FeaturesOsy Ikhile, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: “In school,” recalls 25-year-old London-born actor Osy Ikhile, “acting was the only thing I got praised for. It felt effortless, it didn’t feel like work. But until halfway through university I didn’t think it was a possibility for me as a black British actor, until I saw Idris Elba ...
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FeaturesJessica Barden, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: Jessica Barden has the sort of innate talent that stacks up against the biggest names in the business and threatens to march off with their scenes.
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FeaturesCharlotte Spencer, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: “I don’t know why I wanted to be an actor - but I just knew since I was about three years old,” says Charlotte Spencer.
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FeaturesNicholas Galitzine, Stars of Tomorrow 2015
ACTOR: As a child, Nicholas Galitzine had his heart set on a professional rugby career. He was in the top-league Harlequins Academy when an injury led to him “falling a little bit out of love with rugby. It was tough because, when I lost that, I lost my escape from ...