EXCLUSIVE: One of many buzzier titles set to debut at this 12 months’s Edinburgh Film Festival is Lilies Not For Me, the primary characteristic from American filmmaker Will Seefried, which we will share a first-look clip from above.
Set in Nineteen Twenties England, the movie follows a homosexual novelist and his psychiatric nurse who type an unlikely friendship over a collection of doctor-prescribed ‘dates’. By means of their conversations, he tells her the story of his relationship with an previous pal which spiraled uncontrolled once they turned to a dangerous process to treatment themselves of their forbidden emotions for each other.
The movie stars Fionn O’Shea (Regular Individuals), Robert Aramayo (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy), Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Louis Hofmann (Darkish), and Jodi Balfour (Quarry). Producers are Hannes Otto, Roelof Storm, Will Seefried, Naima Abed, and Emilie Georges. Memento Worldwide is dealing with the pic.
Director Seefried is greatest identified for his quick movie Homesick (2022), which premiered at SXSW and went on to win the Wanting the 12 months Viewers Award. The movie was a Vimeo Workers Choose and gained Greatest Midnight Insanity on the Oscar-qualifying competition Hollyshorts. He’s a co-founder of Wolflight Movies, a manufacturing banner primarily based in Los Angeles and Cape City the place he most just lately served as Govt Producer on two upcoming movies for Amazon Prime Video. He’s at present creating a number of tasks, together with a collection and a characteristic with Sue Naegle.
Seefried has stated the inspiration for Lilies Not For Me got here from analysis the place he found the historical past of a “surprising process from the Nineteen Twenties which claimed to ‘treatment’ homosexuality.”
“This historical past struck me as a chilling expression of the violence that queer individuals nonetheless endure to today, whereas evoking the books and movies that have been most influential to me as an adolescent — haunting interval romances with queer relationships at their heart, like James Baldwin’s masterpiece Giovanni’s Room, Todd Haynes’ Carol, and Service provider Ivory’s Maurice, to call a number of,” Seefried stated.
“I needed to make my debut characteristic on this custom. Society likes to faux that queerness is a latest phenomenon, so I believe there may be nice energy in tales that discover the previous in new methods.”
Try the clip above.
