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Written by Tracy Garrett
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For Philippa Goslett, Little Ashes is her first shot as writer and co-producer of a feature film. Her outline of Little Ashes won the Euroscript Screen Story competition in 2000. As the winner, Goslett shaped her story with three drafts, a full development program and received assistance from Euroscript promoting the project to the market.
Goslett has a background in theater production and later worked at Creative Artists Management where she assisted top agent Michael Wiggs with script reading and publicity.
In 1999, she formed her own production company, Wanton Muse, to develop screenplays with longtime friend Pikka Brassery. Childhood friend Moira Campbell joined the team a year later. The East End-based company’s first project was an adaptation of Paradise Lost by novelist John Milton, though the ambitious project was later put on hold due to its size and scope.
She also served as screenwriter for the 2005 short film Hampstead Heath – The Musical, and her second feature film, Holy Money was recently completed.
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Written by Tracy Garrett
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Known as a talented drama and documentary filmmaker, Paul Morrison takes the helm again in his third feature film, Little Ashes.
In his first feature film, Solomon & Gaenor, Morrison served both as writer and director. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film and won the Welsh BAFTA for best film in 2001. Starring Ioan Gruffudd and Nia Roberts, the film tells the story of a love affair between a Welsh woman and a Jewish immigrant in turn-of-the-century Wales. In a 2000 interview with indieWIRE, Morrison said he was inspired by research about anti-Semitic riots in Wales he discovered while completing his documentary A Sense of Belonging, which explored British Jewish identity.
Morrison wrote and directed his second feature, Wondrous Oblivion, about themes of race and immigration, once again. The film follows a cricket-obsessed Jewish boy’s unlikely friendship with a Jamaican immigrant family in London in the 1960s. Starring Delroy Lindo and Sam Smith, Wonderous Oblivion won awards including the audience award for best feature film at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in 2004.
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