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Driving Ms Margolyes

Synopsis

At the height of Europe’s spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she could film the latest series of Call The Midwife.
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Details

Year
2021
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
27 min 13 sec
Format
Digital
Director
Lucy Darwin
Producer
Lucy Darwin
Co-Producer
Annabel Kipnis
Executive Producer
Charlie Phillips
Editor
Noah Payne-Frank
Director of Photography
Lucy Darwin
Composer
Noah Anderson, Tony Sage
Principal cast
Miriam Margolyes, Liz Hodgkin
Animation
Elmaz Ekrem
Facebook Animation
Joseph Pierce
Production Assistant
Phoebe Clothier

Genre

Woman Director Comedy

Categories

Animation Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Fleet St. Films

21 Fleet Street
London EC4Y 1AA

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