Fresh from collection Star Wars: StarfighterDaniel Ings (Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Gentlemen(Join Jessica Brown Findlay)Peaky Blinders, Downton Abbey) in Olivia Grant’s directorial debut, a short film titled Wait for two weeks.
phenyl walgar (Call your midwife), Rick Warden (Happy Valley), and Sophie Colquhoun (Captain America) co-starring in the project, which follows a woman in her late 30s (Brown Findlay), who faces a series of dissociative experiences as she navigates her declining mental health during her IVF journey alongside her incompetent, if naive, boyfriend (Ings).
Wait for two weekspenned by Grant, is a co-production between her new production banner Cavalry Films and Symphony Films, headed by producer and cast Rebecca Knight (Wuthering Heights(and Harry Hadden-Paton)The crown). The film is scheduled to be shown Tuesday at the Indy Shorts Film Festival.
Grant, best known for her acting roles in Stardust, Lark Rise to Candleford and Indian summerHe said Hollywood Reporter Her desire to start making films came from a combination of timing and a new sense of urgency. “I’ve wanted to make my own work for a while, and like many actors, I had a long script that I’d been quietly writing for a few years, but there was always enough acting work to not focus exclusively on writing, and I was conflicted about what to write about. It was coronavirus that changed that; first because it gave me time to focus on producing new work, and second, because it coincided with my personal struggles with IVF and its mental toll. As a way to hold on to my work.” Mentally, I ended up writing a 30,000-word memoir documenting my spiral of struggles with infertility and writing down the arguments my husband and I were having, which seemed very specific to the process and my unique gender.
Speaking of her personal experience that influenced the process, she continued: “It was only when the world opened up again, and I was able to reconnect with more women and couples, that it became clear that many elements of my mental anguish were remarkably universal. My shame about not being able to have a child and what that meant was normal; My family and I suddenly felt that there was a real need to shed some light on what the profound interpersonal impacts of this remarkably successful, if often harrowing, operation could be.
Wait for two weeks It is a proof of the concept of long narrative Mine childIt is scheduled to take place in 2027, she added. Ings and Brown Findlay have also been attached, with Amy Hubbard on board as casting director.
Ings added: “Olivia is a unique new voice in British filmmaking, with a lot to say about some fairly universal topics that affect so many women. Working with her, and Nanu Segal and Jessica Brown Findlay on this beautiful film, was an embarrassment of creative riches. You haven’t heard the last of Olivia Grant.”
Knight describes the script as “immediately unique, compelling and beautiful”. She said: “[It] It deals with the choices we make, the relationships we foster, and people searching for love and connection as they journey together through life’s struggles. Full of drama, yes, but also very witty and heartbreaking.
