Owen Sheers on making movies:
“I’ve worked in television on both sides of the camera so I have some experience of making TV documentaries, but I’ve never been involved in a feature film before. It is fascinating, surreal, frustrating and exhilarating – just about in equal measure. It’s an incredible medium which seems to sustain itself on a difficult but vibrant mix of structure and chaos.”
On filming in the Black Mountains:
“The landscape of Resistance did much to imbue the film with the tone of the novel, I think, in that the book very much grew from the accent, taste and history of the Black Mountains. I know the cast really fed off being in that environment. Visually it looks wonderful on film and gave Amit the canvas of space he needed as a metaphor for some of the film’s themes of absence and missing.
Resistance stars Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha, and Iwan Rheon and Kimberly Nixon (of Misfits and Fresh Meat respectively.) It is directed by Amit Gupta.
Chapter Arts Centre will be screening the film, and on 26 November Owen Sheers will be holding a Q&A session afterwards.
[youtube width=”236″ height=”200″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fENHHxbAOw[/youtube]
Photo credit to Jules Heath, from the movie’s official Facebook page
Owen Sheers’s debut novel arrives in cinemas in November
Written in Wales, filmed in Wales, and now with its premiere in Wales; Owen Sheers’s Resistance comes to cinemas on 25 November.
The book has received praise since its release in 2007, and the film already has positive reviews. It features a Welsh cast of varying fame, and as Sheers says, “As a Welshman, watching the scene between Michael [Sheen] and Iwan [Rheon] was especially exciting – two generations of excellent Welsh actors in the same shot.”
Sheers hopes to work on another literary adaptation with Resistance director Amit Gupta. Next time though, says Sheers, it won’t be his own book. “I enjoy writing the most when I have the most to learn, and having had a taste of screenwriting I’m very keen to continue.”
Owen Sheers on making movies:
“I’ve worked in television on both sides of the camera so I have some experience of making TV documentaries, but I’ve never been involved in a feature film before. It is fascinating, surreal, frustrating and exhilarating – just about in equal measure. It’s an incredible medium which seems to sustain itself on a difficult but vibrant mix of structure and chaos.”
On filming in the Black Mountains:
“The landscape of Resistance did much to imbue the film with the tone of the novel, I think, in that the book very much grew from the accent, taste and history of the Black Mountains. I know the cast really fed off being in that environment. Visually it looks wonderful on film and gave Amit the canvas of space he needed as a metaphor for some of the film’s themes of absence and missing.
Resistance stars Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha, and Iwan Rheon and Kimberly Nixon (of Misfits and Fresh Meat respectively.) It is directed by Amit Gupta.
Chapter Arts Centre will be screening the film, and on 26 November Owen Sheers will be holding a Q&A session afterwards.
[youtube width=”236″ height=”200″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fENHHxbAOw[/youtube]
Photo credit to Jules Heath, from the movie’s official Facebook page