RECLAIM THE FRAME is a mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women, backed by lottery funding from the BFI.
We launched RECLAIM THE FRAME as a pilot in 5 cities in 2018, and we are now expanding to another 5 cities, one of which is Exeter. From May 2019, we will spotlight films by womxn every month at the Exeter Phoenix, our venue partner.
Join us at the Exeter launch event on Wednesday 8th May, 6.30pm at Exeter Phoenix to find out more about the project and to sign up as part of the mission – it’s free and easy. Plus, a screening of British musical, WILD ROSE.
Following the screening, poet and filmmaker Be Manzini will share poems reflecting on the themes of WILD ROSE and we will then host a workshop with Be called ‘Harnessing Your Authentic Voice’, plus drinks.
We want to build a network in Exeter of like-minded people who care about equality and film and making a difference and want to join us to see great films by women, to meet others who care too, and to eventually change the film space and the world….
Written by Nicole Taylor
Directed by Tom Harper
Produced by Faye Ward
15
2019
101 mins
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Diamond-in-the-rough Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is fresh out of prison and determined to make it as Country star. But her long suffering mother (Julie Walters), who has raised Rose-Lynn’s two children in her absence, thinks her dream is pie in the sky and demands she put family first. Forced to take a dead end job, she soon discovers a silver lining: her new employer (Sophie Okonedo) has become her biggest fan and wants to help her realise her ambition. With her self-belief restored, she begins to discover who she really is and that there is a different path to success.
Written by award-winning writer Nicole Taylor (BAFTA for Best Writer for Three Girls and nominated for The C-Word), Wild Rose is a funny, sad, tender and uplifting story that will sweep along even the most hardened movie cynic: in her break-out role, star-in-the-making Buckley is utterly irresistible.
