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Sony boards Made in Dagenham

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Sony Picture Classics has acquired Spain, US, Latin America and Japan rights for British director Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham. Cole is somewhat of a specialist on women’s rights films, having earlier made Saving Grace and Calendar Girls.

The film is inspired by the true story of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where women workers downed tools, striking to get equal pay with their male counterparts. The film is written by William Ivory and produced by Stephen Woolley (And When Did You Last See Your Father? [+see also:
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) and Elizabeth Karlsen (Perrier’s Bounty, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People [+see also:
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) under their Number 9 Films label.

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Sony said in a statement: “With the subject of women’s rights front and centre, Made in Dagenham is one of those unknown true stories of triumph audiences love to embrace, brilliantly directed by Nigel Cole, perfectly acted by Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike, Geraldine James and Bob Hoskins.”

Cole said. “It’s fantastic that Sony Classics will be taking the story of these wonderfully empowering women to US audiences; as they showed with An Education [+see also:
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they will be great partners for our film.”

HanWay Films is looking after worldwide sales. The film was developed with funding from the UK Film Council (UKFC), and its production backers include BBC Films, BMS Finance, Lip Sync Productions and the UKFC.

The film was formerly titled We Want Sex, until the producers opted for a less aggressive title.

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