Exclusive: Park Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to the coming-of-age road trip film Petroleum Spirit.
The London-based sales and distribution company is now selling the film in Cannes.
Written and directed by Rob Sanders, Petroleum Spirit marges fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his nuclear-holocaust fearing mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 1980′s Britain.
When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
Currently shooting in the UK, the film stars...
The London-based sales and distribution company is now selling the film in Cannes.
Written and directed by Rob Sanders, Petroleum Spirit marges fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his nuclear-holocaust fearing mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 1980′s Britain.
When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
Currently shooting in the UK, the film stars...
- 5/17/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Dutch director Sacha Polak is now attached to Mirror Productions’ Vita and Virginia.
The feature centres on the love affair between Virginia Woolf and lover Vita Sackville-West.
Eileen Atkins wrote the screenplay based on her play of the same name.
Polak’s first feature was the award-winning Hemel, and she is now in post on follow-up Zurich.
Vita and Virginia is being produced by Mirror Productions founding partner Evangelo Kioussis with Bill Shepherd of Bill Shepherd Productions.
The script is now going out to cast, with production slated for early spring 2015.
Mirror is also in production now, shooting in South Wales, on black comedy Petroleum Spirit.
The feature centres on the love affair between Virginia Woolf and lover Vita Sackville-West.
Eileen Atkins wrote the screenplay based on her play of the same name.
Polak’s first feature was the award-winning Hemel, and she is now in post on follow-up Zurich.
Vita and Virginia is being produced by Mirror Productions founding partner Evangelo Kioussis with Bill Shepherd of Bill Shepherd Productions.
The script is now going out to cast, with production slated for early spring 2015.
Mirror is also in production now, shooting in South Wales, on black comedy Petroleum Spirit.
- 4/16/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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