‘Babar Matha’: Producer begins production from psychological horror ‘Gatakal’; AMP Board World Sales — EFM
Exclusive: Production started this week father’s headA psychological horror from writer-director Benjamin Burfoot (Date of genius)
Matthew James Wilkinson (yesterday) produced alongside Patrick Tolan (TIM) for Stigma Films, with financing provided by Quickfire Films, Arthro Films, Shoutloud Creative, Onsite and Capture.
AMP is handling world sales and will shop the project to upcoming European film markets.
Executive producers are Jan Pace and James Atherton for Quickfire, MJ McMahon and Matthew Jones for Capture, Simon Marriott for Shoutloud Creative, James Owen for Arthro Films, Tony Maher for Onsite and James Norrie, Nina Kolokouri, Bob Portal and Indrapal for AMP. Singh. .
The full synopsis of the film reads: A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother fear for their lives after being visited by a strange and inexplicable creature. Something that mimics a terrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.
Julia Brown (World on Fire) and Rupert Turnbull (Nativity Rocks) stars as the aforementioned widow and her stepson. Nathaniel Martello-White (I hate semolina, short ax: mangrove) and Charles Aitken (Happy Death Day, Girl on the Train)
“Daddy’s Head is one of the most singularly original genre films I’ve ever read,” Norrie says “Combining rich and textured characters dealing with the grief and heartbreaking longing that a child experiences when losing a parent with an exciting and terrifying animal feature.
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