2008 Lab Update
MOONSTONE LAB UPDATE
Unfortunately Moonstone will not be running any labs or setting any deadlines in 2008. Please continue to check this website for more information.
MOONSTONE PAST PARTICIPANT HITS NATIONAL CINEMAS
Brick Lane is still playing in select cinemas across the UK and well worth catching. Directed by Sarah Gavron (Moonstone 2000) Based on Monica Alis' acclaimed novel. Winner of the London Film Festival UK Talent Award, the Dinard Audience Award, nominated for 2 Awards at the BIFA's, and for best New Director at the forthcoming London Critics Awards.
"A profoundly moving adaptation of Monica Ali's novel. An impressive debut" Nick Funnell TIME OUT
"A gently moving tale. A loving and frequently moving portrait of a family. Gavron proves herself a talent to watch." EVENING STANDARD
"Sensitive and intelligent **** EMPIRE
As memorable as a stroll down the real Brick Lane, this soulful adaptation of Monica Ali's heartbreaking novel rarely puts a step wrong A truly heartfelt experience" **** James Mottram, MARIE CLAIRE
"The movie is a jewel in its own right. The performance of Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen is particularly luminous." SPECTATOR
The Story At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. But Nazneen submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.
FUNDING FROM THE MEDIA NEW TALENT
Moonstone is delighted to announce that FIVE of its alumni have received development funding from the MEDIA New Talent
Moonstone would like to congratulate:
Tom Collins, Donegal (De Facto Film Productions)
Richard Crawford, McCarthy's War (Bandigital Ltd)
Kevin Liddy, A Time For Everything (Newgrange Pictures Ltd)
John McIlduff, East Belfast Yacht Club (Raw Nerve Productions Ltd)
Francis Turnly, The Devil's Work (AMP Polska)
Moonstone’s Artistic Director Jean-Luc Ormières, commenting said: ‘We are thrilled that this number of Moonstone projects have been selected for the MEDIA New Talent Scheme. We wish all of the beneficiaries of the New Talent Scheme every success with their projects in the future.’
The New Talent scheme is open to companies who have undertaken a long term MEDIA supported training course and who wish to finance further development of that project with MEDIA.
For further information about the Media Programme of the EU, and the New Talent Scheme please visit - here or your local Media Desk/Antenna here
