Cinematic greenlights three features
- Nuclear, Cadi and The Toll are to go into production later this year
Ffilm Cymru Wales’ Cinematic scheme has greenlit three feature-film projects. Feature debutant writer-director Catherine Linstrum’s Nuclear is a supernatural thriller set in a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, where a toxic family with a combustible past must face the ghosts that threaten their future. Linstrum, whose writing credits include Dreaming of Joseph Lees and California Dreamin’ [+see also:
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Produced by Roger Williams, written by Siwan Jones and set to be directed by Lee Haven Jones, Cadi is a contemporary Welsh-language horror, set in the beautiful yet brutal landscape of Snowdonia, about a young woman returning home under mysterious circumstances. Cadi will be the feature debut by this team that has experience in Welsh-language television, including Alys, Tir and 35 Diwrnod.
Written by Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab alumnus Matt Redd, produced by Vaughan Sivell and to be directed by BAFTA Cymru-nominated Ryan Hooper, The Toll is a darkly comic thriller about a toll-booth operator with a past that is rapidly catching up with him.
The three projects are now in pre-production, with principal photography due to commence later this year.
Ffilm Cymru Wales’ Adam Partridge said, “Choosing just three films from such a high-quality crop of projects was a difficult decision, but those we’ve selected reflect the distinctive and diverse voices and visions that talent from Wales has to offer.”
The Cinematic scheme is financed through a partnership with the BFI and S4C, with additional support from Fields Park Media Partners and Warner Music Supervision.
Previous films produced through Cinematic include Craig Roberts’ Just Jim [+see also:
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