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| Location still for Barcelonely Hearts |
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Barcelonely Hearts is a feature-length romcom. (Location-wise, the title is a total plot spoiler!) The main characters are artists and sculptors who live and love on the Costa Brava. Currently my screenplay is being translated into Spanish and Catalan.
Likewise my script for Music For Squares is created with a pan-European audience in mind. This short ‘feelgood’ film is very much in the spirit of Amélie and, of course, the movies of Jacques Tati. The project has a well-known TV actor on board.
I am also preparing a series with a colleague based in Melbourne. This focuses on the career of legendary Australian-born Hollywood filmmaker JP McGowan who – according to family legend – was related to my maternal great-grandfather.
A prolific producer/director/actor, JP directed his film-star wife Helen Holmes in the top-rated ‘heroine in peril’ serial The Hazards Of Helen. The persona of Helen is said to have inspired the character Nell Fenwick, the ‘damsel in dismay’ from the long-running US TV series Rocky And Bullwinkle. JP’s final screen appearance was opposite John Wayne in Stagecoach... before which he had directed no less than 242 movies.