PREVIEW: The Filmmaker’s House (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Marc Isaacs (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Marc Isaacs (Men of the City), director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor; David Charap (film debut), writer, editor; Richard Norris (film debut) and Matthew Shaw (The Cast Squid of a Lost Character), composers

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A filmmaker (Isaacs) is told that his next movie must be about crime, sex or celebrity if it is to acquire funding. In response, he begins shooting a film in his own home, using several people in his own life as the stars, including two builders hired to repair a fence, his Pakistani neighbour who he is temporarily sharing a garden with, a homeless Slovakian man, and his Colombian cleaner….

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs blends fact and fiction in a unique new documentary that charts the process of making movies through a very unusual method.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH JUNE 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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