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Gwen

Synopsis

In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother’s mysterious illness, her father’s absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.
Official Selection Toronto Intenrational Film Festival 2018 - Discovery - World premiere

Details

Year
2018
Type of project
Features
Running time
84 mins
Director
William McGregor 1st Feature
Producer
Hilary Bevan Jones, Tom Nash
Executive Producer
Lizzie Francke, Adam Partridge, Fergus Haycock, Paul Grindey, Charles Moore
Editor
Mark Towns
Screenwriter
William McGregor
Director of Photography
Adam Etherington
Production Designer
Laura Ellis Cricks
Sound
Jonny Seale
Composer
James Edward Barker
Principal cast
Maxine Peake, Eleanor Worthing-Cox, Richard Harrington, Mark Lewis Jones

Genre

Welsh Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

An Endor Productions Ltd film with support from BFI, Ffilm Great Point Media, Cymru Wales

Endor Productions Ltd

20 Greek Street
London
W1D 4DU

Rise Films

46 Berwick Street
London
W1F 8SG

Sales Company

Great Point Media

3rd Floor
14 Floral Street
London
WC2E 9DH

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