As in 'it's a period film.' The U.K. Film Council is backing a trio of female filmmakers by investing coin in new projects from Jane Campion, Andrea Arnold and Morag McKinnon. All three pics will get funding through the U.K. Film Council's New Cinema Fund.
Campion's film is called Bright Star (it started production March 31). It's aboutthe ill-fated love affair between 19th century English poet John Keats and his 18-year-old muse Fanny Brawne which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25. British thespian Ben Whitshaw plays the role of Keats with Abbie Cornish taking on the role of Brawne. Keats was one of the Romantic poets, who, along with Percy Shelly, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Mary Shelly, created some of the darkest and most disturbing literature in the English language...
Campion won an Oscar for cutting off Holly Hunter's fingers in The Piano, one of only 3 women ever to do so. Win an Oscar for directing, that is.
