This Summer just gone...

Here's one from Lingua Franca.

Behind the scenes stills

The hot and hairy Quinnford + Scout boys have been taking stills for the film and have released a handful of behind the scenes shots which you can take a look at here.

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The Weekender

I'm very pleased to announce that this autumn I'll be filming "The Weekender". It's the next feature film from Director Andrew Haigh, who recently had a huge success with his feature length docu-drama "Greek Pete".

Here's how he describes it -"On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives.
The Weekender is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms."

Sounds HOT, I think you'll agree.

You can follow the making of the film on its very own blog by clicking here.

Pictures From Pictures From An Exhibition

New Does New Play

No, that's not me. That's Peter Nichols. He wrote plays like Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Privates on Parade. And, lucky for me, he's written a new play called Lingua Franca which I'm very excited to be leading this summer at the Finborough Theatre. It's Directed by the very talented Michael Gieleta. We open 13th July.

This is what they say about it; "Lingua Franca follows innocent abroad, Steven Flowers, as he travels from National Service in South-East Asia to 1950’s Florence. He soon finds himself working for a chaotically-run language school, together with a cosmopolitan muddle of seven foreign misfits killing their post-war nihilism in the cafés of Florence, the cradle of Renaissance high culture.
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I'm very excited by the project and hope to see you there!

Diversity in Film Portrait

Donald Maclellan snapped this shot last week for the Diversity in Film "Pink Portraits" Collection, in partnership with the UK Film Council.

The intention is to exhibit the collection at a number of film festivals and industry events later this year. You can see the rest of the collection, which includes the wondrous Mckellen and the astounding Callow here www.diversityinfilm.org.uk.

Enjoy!