This is the seventh in a series of ongoing events that forms part of Birds’ Eye View’s Reclaim The Frame; a mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women to build a more balanced film future.

 

Written by Nicole Taylor

Directed by Tom Harper

Produced by Faye Ward

Cast:

Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, James Harkness, Ashley Shelton

15
2019
101 mins

eOne

 

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. 

 

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion hosted by Oscar-winning producer and the director of Birds’ Eye View, Mia Bays. She will be joined by Slag Mag – Mazzy Snape & Sophie Huck, and criminologist Melindy Brown.

The discussion will be followed by a DJ set by Mazzy.