EXCLUSIVE: Miss You Already producer Christopher Simon has boarded low-budget Brit pic YAMAS!.
The movie, which is being produced for below £500,000 ($675,000), is the debut title of Harry Richards and Rufus Love’s manufacturing home, Headrush Movies, and is billed as a chaotic comedy-drama satire. Richards and Love are co-directing from a script Love tailored from his theater script of the identical title.
New Sparta Productions CEO Simon will executive-produce the movie, alongside Disauthority CEO Marcus Hundsnes, who put a number of the manufacturing finance. Ex-Anton, Head Gear and HanWay Movies financier exec Orlando Figg can be supporting the mission.
The 90-minute comedy-drama is billed as a “scorching satire that sees a liberal British household’s boozy vacation plunged into chaos by the invention of a refugee residing within the villa’s outhouse.”
Improvement finance of £40,000 has been raised and a shoot will happen in Greece this fall. The movie has solely six roles, which shall be solid this yr, and a single location, however the plan is to create a festival-friendly pic that shall be prepared in time for Christmas. Love and Richards beforehand made quick movie Contact Hours.
“We’re so excited to be supporting Headrush Movies on this mission,” mentioned Disauthority’s Hundsnes. “Harry and Rufus demonstrated their ability as filmmakers with Contact Hours, and their daring imaginative and prescient for YAMAS! feels extraordinarily contemporary. We’re proud to be serving to to ensure that the movie is delivered on the highest potential high quality.”
“The zeitgeisty message of YAMAS! mixed with Richards and Love’s confirmed skill to create an impactful cinematic expertise appears to be like to make YAMAS! a robust contender on subsequent yr’s pageant circuit,” added Figg. “It’s a lovely proposition to traders searching for low finances tasks from sturdy, contemporary directorial voices, with out the compromise on manufacturing worth.”
