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The Hope Rooms (film)

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 Film Festivals 2016

WINNER Grand Prize Future Filmmaker Award (Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2016)

WORLD PREMIER Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival

EUROPEAN PREMIER Encounters Film Festival, 21st September 4pm

 

About

The Hope Rooms by David Watson is a short film commissioned by 31Productions in 2013, which concluded shooting in September 2015, with a planned festival release in 2016. It was shot entirely on location in London and produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper for Rather Good Films, Bill Kenwright Films and 31Productions.

The film tells the story of estranged father, Eamonn (Ciarán Hinds), and his son, Sean (Andrew Scott), who meet up after 15 years in a cafe in London. Under the gaze of waitress Ileana (Agnieszka Grochowska), Eamonn asks to be useful again, and seeks forgiveness for his absence in Sean’s life. But past hurts are difficult to overcome, and what begins with hope ends in a wounding transaction.

Exploring shame, loneliness and forgiveness, The Hope Rooms brings two of the world’s great actors together on screen for the first time.

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Production images by Marc Brenner




Photography by Marc Brenner

Cast and Crew

Starring
Ciarán Hinds
Andrew Scott
Agnieszka Grochowska

HR CASTIntroducing
Santiago Winder

With
Tika Peucelle
Obi Abili
Stavros Demetraki
Radoslaw Drozdz
Mia Austin
Mark Kavuma
Penny Collins

Directed by
Sam Yates

Written by
David Watson

Story by
David Watson and Sam Yates

Cinematographer
Luke Bryant

Composer
Alex Baranowski

Editor
Christopher Watson

Production Design
Noam Piper

Casting director
Lucy Rands

Produced by
Daniel-Konrad Cooper
Sam Yates

Executive Producers
Bill Kenwright Films
Jan and Michael Topham
The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation
Edgar and Judith Wallner
Anthony Salz

Stephanie Bamberg Line Producer
Sinéad O’Sullivan Costume Design

Julia Bowden Makeup Designer
Emily Dodge Makeup Artist
Lynsey Muir First Assistant Director
Joe Cox Third Assistant Director

Max Lincoln Stand-by Art Director
Lee Collins Sound Recordist
Raúl Armendáriz Second Assistant Camera (as Raul Menendez)
Sophie Baggaley DIT
James Elias Steadicam Operator
Neil Hawkins Electrician
Malte Hubner First Assistant Camera / Focus Puller
Eira Wyn Jones Second Assistant Camera
Ralph Messer First Assistant Camera
Aaron Walters Gaffer

Press

SCREEN DAILY (September 2015) “Pride star Andrew Scott and Munich actor Ciarán Hinds lead cast in recently wrapped short The Hope Rooms, the filmmaking debut of theatre director Sam Yates… The high-end short tells the story of estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, who meet up after 15 years in a café in London in order to heal old wounds.”