Writer-director Sophie Mathisen didn.t tread the usual path in making her first film, Drama.
While studying for her Ma at London.s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Sophie was charged with making a short for her thesis..
Having had an idea .kicking around. her brain for years, Sophie pitched a feature instead. She locked herself away over eight days at Christmas to write a script, and enlisted her sister, Dominique, to be her producer.
The result was Drama, a .friendship romantic comedy. about a down-on-her-luck Aussie actor, Anna, living in London — played by Sophie. Still hung up on an ex, Anna travels to Paris to visit her best friend Jean (Jonathan Burtreaux). However the timing isn.t ideal: Jean is having issues with his own partner, Philippe (François Vincentelli).
The team was shooting eight months after the script was finished. The short time frame they had to...
While studying for her Ma at London.s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Sophie was charged with making a short for her thesis..
Having had an idea .kicking around. her brain for years, Sophie pitched a feature instead. She locked herself away over eight days at Christmas to write a script, and enlisted her sister, Dominique, to be her producer.
The result was Drama, a .friendship romantic comedy. about a down-on-her-luck Aussie actor, Anna, living in London — played by Sophie. Still hung up on an ex, Anna travels to Paris to visit her best friend Jean (Jonathan Burtreaux). However the timing isn.t ideal: Jean is having issues with his own partner, Philippe (François Vincentelli).
The team was shooting eight months after the script was finished. The short time frame they had to...
- 11/23/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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