DAPHNE
Filmfest 2017
United Kingdom 2017
Original version
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Peter Mackie Burns
Section: International Independents
Daphne works as a cook at a London restaurant. She’s single, sharp-tongued, hard to deal with. Along with a few flirts, she’s busy dealing with her mother, who has cancer and wants to make up to her. When Daphne becomes witness to a stabbing, her life is thrown off-kilter. A gripping portrait of a woman, with an impressive performance by newcomer Emily Beecham.
Cast: Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Nathaniel Martello-White
Credits
Screenplay: Nico Mensinga
Director of Photography: Adam Scarth
Film Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: Sam Beste
Production Designer: Miren Maranon Tejedor
Costume Design: Nigel Egerton
Sound: Joakim Sundström
Producer: Valentina Brazzini, Tristan Goligher
Production Company: The Bureau
World Sales: The Bureau Sales
Director: Peter Mackie Burns
biography
Peter Mackie Burns won the Gold Bear at Berlin 2005 for short MILK, which went on to screen at over one hundred international festivals. His next short, RUN, starring Paprika Steen (FESTEN) was produced by BBC. He shot TV movie THE SPASTIC KING for Channel 4. His first feature doc COME CLOSER about the private life of various Glaswegians premiered at London Open City Documentary Festival 2012. Emily Beecham featured in his last short HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, and now plays the lead in DAPHNE (2016).
