Mirror Productions announce Romola Garai is to star as Vita Sackville-West in its upcoming feature film Vita & Virginia
The feature centres on the love affair between author Vita Sackville-West and novelist Virginia Woolf.
They were both closely involved with the Bloomsbury Group, of which Woolf was a member, and both enjoyed same-sex relationships. Dutch director Sacha Polak (Zurich, Hemel) will be releasing the screenplay by Dame Eileen Atkins, who has adapted it from her stage play of the same name.
Mirror Productions’ Evangelo Kioussis is producing Vita & Virginia alongside Bill Shepherd (Mrs. Dalloway), with Simon Baxter as executive producer. Kioussis recently produced acclaimed commercials director Rob Sanders’ first feature, Petroleum Spirit, which will be premiering this summer.
This week, Kioussis is representing Vita & Virginia at CineMart during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), where the film was selected for participation.
He is attending with co-producer Marleen Slot of Viking Film and director Sacha Polak, talking to potential co-production partners and sales agents to attach to Vita & Virginia.
Kioussis and Baxter will be attending the Berlin Film Festival and Market in February 2015 to further meet with sales companies for Vita & Virginia.
I recent read a travel article in the Guardian not advisable if you are tucking into your favourite meal.
"The problem with taking your 10-month-old baby on holiday to a luxury, five-star boutique hotel is that the magnitude of this fact leaves them cold. For ours, it's just another room to cry in, to puke over, to spray with shit. " http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/25/romola-garai-ditches-mobile-in-morocco-travel
Period Biopic Drama
Directed by Sacha Polak Written by Dame Eileen Atkins
Produced by Evangelo Kioussis and Bill Shepherd
Executive Producers: Simon Baxter and Robert Bell
Mirror Productions is pleased to announce that Sacha Polak is now attached to direct its upcoming feature film, Vita and Virginia, the true account of the passionate relationship between literary innovator Virginia Woolf and her only lover Vita Sackville-West. Written by multi-award winning actress/screenwriter Dame Eileen Atkins and based on her internationally acclaimed play, Vita and Virginia is a chronicle of two women struggling to find solace against the grain of society. Sacha Polak’s bold direction will give a contemporary edge to Atkins’ timeless story.
It’s the roaring 1920’s – and VIRGINIA WOOLF has reached the apex of modern world literature for her landmark book, Mrs. Dalloway. However nothing seems to soothe the darkness that plagues her. She is powerless over the mood swings that alternately lift herto manic creative heights and then crush her under suffocating melancholia, driving her deeper into seclusion. Virginia’s husband LEONARD does what he can to prop her up, as do her Bloomsbury Group friends, but this is the price Woolf pays for her particular genius.
Woolf’s illness, however, does not stop VITA SACKVILLE-WEST from courting her with letters of admiration. Vita has a soft spot for Virginia’s writing – and being a Sapphist, she admits having one for Virginia herself. Vita’s letters and poems compel Virginia into a courtship that is hardly concealed from their respective husbands. Soon, Virginia is enthralled by Vita. She is everything Virginia is not – extroverted, direct, in possession of a strongly magnetic personality and, as Virginia writes, ‘amazing legs’.
Vita adventures into the far reaches of the Middle East and begins sending a series of love letters to Virginia, richly detailing her adventures and inspiring Woolf’s masterpiece Orlando. The novel chronicles the adventures of an androgynous hero who inhabits multiple lifetimes as both a man and a woman – a thinly veiled expression of Virginia’s own romantic awakening for Vita. Upon Vita’s return, the two women consummate their relationship – a major step for the sexually timid Woolf. Although she enjoys spells of contentedness through the next decade and a half of their turbulent relationship, Virginia eventually takes her own life in the River Ouse.
Virginia and Vita’s bond continues to live on in Woolf’s canonical literature, which enjoys even more popularity today than in her lifetime. Vita and Virginia is a timeless story, told in an exciting contemporary style, about two women who smashed through social barriers to find solace in forbidden connection.
The feature centres on the love affair between author Vita Sackville-West and novelist Virginia Woolf.
They were both closely involved with the Bloomsbury Group, of which Woolf was a member, and both enjoyed same-sex relationships. Dutch director Sacha Polak (Zurich, Hemel) will be releasing the screenplay by Dame Eileen Atkins, who has adapted it from her stage play of the same name.
Mirror Productions’ Evangelo Kioussis is producing Vita & Virginia alongside Bill Shepherd (Mrs. Dalloway), with Simon Baxter as executive producer. Kioussis recently produced acclaimed commercials director Rob Sanders’ first feature, Petroleum Spirit, which will be premiering this summer.
This week, Kioussis is representing Vita & Virginia at CineMart during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), where the film was selected for participation.
He is attending with co-producer Marleen Slot of Viking Film and director Sacha Polak, talking to potential co-production partners and sales agents to attach to Vita & Virginia.
Kioussis and Baxter will be attending the Berlin Film Festival and Market in February 2015 to further meet with sales companies for Vita & Virginia.
I recent read a travel article in the Guardian not advisable if you are tucking into your favourite meal.
"The problem with taking your 10-month-old baby on holiday to a luxury, five-star boutique hotel is that the magnitude of this fact leaves them cold. For ours, it's just another room to cry in, to puke over, to spray with shit. " http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/25/romola-garai-ditches-mobile-in-morocco-travel
Period Biopic Drama
Directed by Sacha Polak Written by Dame Eileen Atkins
Produced by Evangelo Kioussis and Bill Shepherd
Executive Producers: Simon Baxter and Robert Bell
Mirror Productions is pleased to announce that Sacha Polak is now attached to direct its upcoming feature film, Vita and Virginia, the true account of the passionate relationship between literary innovator Virginia Woolf and her only lover Vita Sackville-West. Written by multi-award winning actress/screenwriter Dame Eileen Atkins and based on her internationally acclaimed play, Vita and Virginia is a chronicle of two women struggling to find solace against the grain of society. Sacha Polak’s bold direction will give a contemporary edge to Atkins’ timeless story.
It’s the roaring 1920’s – and VIRGINIA WOOLF has reached the apex of modern world literature for her landmark book, Mrs. Dalloway. However nothing seems to soothe the darkness that plagues her. She is powerless over the mood swings that alternately lift herto manic creative heights and then crush her under suffocating melancholia, driving her deeper into seclusion. Virginia’s husband LEONARD does what he can to prop her up, as do her Bloomsbury Group friends, but this is the price Woolf pays for her particular genius.
Woolf’s illness, however, does not stop VITA SACKVILLE-WEST from courting her with letters of admiration. Vita has a soft spot for Virginia’s writing – and being a Sapphist, she admits having one for Virginia herself. Vita’s letters and poems compel Virginia into a courtship that is hardly concealed from their respective husbands. Soon, Virginia is enthralled by Vita. She is everything Virginia is not – extroverted, direct, in possession of a strongly magnetic personality and, as Virginia writes, ‘amazing legs’.
Vita adventures into the far reaches of the Middle East and begins sending a series of love letters to Virginia, richly detailing her adventures and inspiring Woolf’s masterpiece Orlando. The novel chronicles the adventures of an androgynous hero who inhabits multiple lifetimes as both a man and a woman – a thinly veiled expression of Virginia’s own romantic awakening for Vita. Upon Vita’s return, the two women consummate their relationship – a major step for the sexually timid Woolf. Although she enjoys spells of contentedness through the next decade and a half of their turbulent relationship, Virginia eventually takes her own life in the River Ouse.
Virginia and Vita’s bond continues to live on in Woolf’s canonical literature, which enjoys even more popularity today than in her lifetime. Vita and Virginia is a timeless story, told in an exciting contemporary style, about two women who smashed through social barriers to find solace in forbidden connection.
