Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to A Bit of Light, the second feature helmed by Stephen Moyer, on the heels of 2018 family drama The Parting Glass. Starring Moyer’s wife, True Blood co-star and Emmy and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin, as well as Ray Winstone (The Departed), the film is an adaptation by Rebecca Callard of her Bruntwood Prize-winning play of the same name. It’s slated for release in select theaters across the country, as well as on VOD and digital on April 5.
Check out a trailer above.
A Bit of Light unfolds as an intimate story about a recovering alcoholic named Ella (Paquin). A series of tough breaks forces Ella to move back in with her father Alan (Winstone), while her daughters are under the care of her ex-husband Joseph (Youssef Kerkour) and his new partner Bethan (Pippa Bennett-Warner). Mired in guilt, the protagonist...
Check out a trailer above.
A Bit of Light unfolds as an intimate story about a recovering alcoholic named Ella (Paquin). A series of tough breaks forces Ella to move back in with her father Alan (Winstone), while her daughters are under the care of her ex-husband Joseph (Youssef Kerkour) and his new partner Bethan (Pippa Bennett-Warner). Mired in guilt, the protagonist...
- 2/21/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Jointly represents North American rights with The Gersh Agency.
Ddi has come on board for worldwide sales starting at EFM on Stephen Moyer’s drama A Bit Of Light starring Anna Paquin, Ray Winstone and Youssef Kerkour.
Moyer’s (True Blood) second directorial outing follows Ella (Paquin), nearly in her 40s, who moves back with her father Alan (Winstone) and tries to stay sober after ceding custody of her young daughters to her ex and his new partner.
A Bit Of Light filmed entirely on location in Suffolk and Scarborough in the UK. Phin Glynn and Axel Kuschevatzky produced through...
Ddi has come on board for worldwide sales starting at EFM on Stephen Moyer’s drama A Bit Of Light starring Anna Paquin, Ray Winstone and Youssef Kerkour.
Moyer’s (True Blood) second directorial outing follows Ella (Paquin), nearly in her 40s, who moves back with her father Alan (Winstone) and tries to stay sober after ceding custody of her young daughters to her ex and his new partner.
A Bit Of Light filmed entirely on location in Suffolk and Scarborough in the UK. Phin Glynn and Axel Kuschevatzky produced through...
- 2/3/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Oscar winner Anna Paquin and International Emmy winner Ray Winstone are leading the cast of A Bit of Light, the sophomore feature from director Stephen Moyer, who is best known for playing vampire Bill Compton in HBO series True Blood.
Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London) and BAFTA nominee Youssef Kerkour (Home) are also starring in the movie, which is now shooting in the UK. Deadline can reveal a first image from the set above.
The film was written by Rebecca Callard, based on her own stage play. It follows Ella (Paquin), now living with her father Alan (Winstone) and newly sober having temporarily given up custody of her young daughters to her ex-husband Joseph (Kerkour) and his new partner Bethan (Bennett-Warner). She strikes up an unlikely friendship with a mysterious teenage boy (newcomer Luca Hogan) whose belief in her as a mother helps her rediscover her self-worth.
Moyer, who...
Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London) and BAFTA nominee Youssef Kerkour (Home) are also starring in the movie, which is now shooting in the UK. Deadline can reveal a first image from the set above.
The film was written by Rebecca Callard, based on her own stage play. It follows Ella (Paquin), now living with her father Alan (Winstone) and newly sober having temporarily given up custody of her young daughters to her ex-husband Joseph (Kerkour) and his new partner Bethan (Bennett-Warner). She strikes up an unlikely friendship with a mysterious teenage boy (newcomer Luca Hogan) whose belief in her as a mother helps her rediscover her self-worth.
Moyer, who...
- 10/12/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
We often knowingly make decisions in the name of self-preservation but what happens when as a child, we make decisions that we don't realize will have life-long implications?
That's the mystery at the centre of writer/director Anja Murmann's sophomore effort Unintended. The indie stars Elizabeth Lail as Lea a young woman going through some stuff.
She's getting flashes of a memory or event she can't fully remember and in an effort to help her move past whatever she's going through, Dad offers to take her out of the city and the pair return to her childhood home where Lea comes face-to-face with the disturbing event from her past.
I love a good psychological thriller and the set-up for Unintended certainly suggests this could be worthwhile but more than that, I'm...
That's the mystery at the centre of writer/director Anja Murmann's sophomore effort Unintended. The indie stars Elizabeth Lail as Lea a young woman going through some stuff.
She's getting flashes of a memory or event she can't fully remember and in an effort to help her move past whatever she's going through, Dad offers to take her out of the city and the pair return to her childhood home where Lea comes face-to-face with the disturbing event from her past.
I love a good psychological thriller and the set-up for Unintended certainly suggests this could be worthwhile but more than that, I'm...
- 8/21/2019
- QuietEarth.us
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