PREVIEW: Zebra Girl (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sarah Roy (film debut), Tom Cullen (Weekend), Jade Anouka (Fisherman’s Friends), Anna Wilson-Jones (Gladiatress), Isabelle Connolly (The Other Lamb), Moyo Akandé (The Hurricane Heist), Angela Yeoh (Surviving Christmas with the Relatives), Henry Douthwaite (Sweetboy), Daisy Mayer (film debut), Buckso Dhillon-Woolley (Honeycomb Lodge), Siobhan Athwal (Walking on Sunshine), Gemma Park (Home Away from Home)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Stephanie Zari (film debut), director; Derek Ahonen (The Transcendents), writer; Dai Davison (film debut) and Monika Kasprzak (film debut), producers; Caspar Leopard (film debut), composer; Catherine Derry (Junkhearts), cinematographer; Benjamin Gerstein (My Feral Heart), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Catherine (Roy) finds her seemingly perfect life turned upside down after she discovers her husband Dan (Cullen) has been hiding a dark secret that causes her to commit an unspeakable act. Her mysterious friend Anita (Anouka) arrives to help Catherine with her problem, but as the two friends look back on their complicated past they start to realise that it’s about to come back and haunt them with a vengeance…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Based on the play by Derek Ahonen (who also writes the screenplay), Zebra Girl is a psychological thriller with a pitch-black sense of humour which explores the darker sides of abuse and mental illness.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 28TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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