Tell it to the Bees has become a film! I sat in the audience and watched the characters I’d thought up, and named, and imagined into being on the page, brought to life on the huge cinema screen in Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre. So exciting! The film is beautiful, with some lovely performances. Some things …
Very excited that Tell it to the Bees is going to Cannes: longing to see all that’s been made out of my story!
Last week I climbed four flights of narrow stairs to a small room at (nearly) the top of a tatty building off Oxford Circus. At a large desk in front of the window: two screens and all the techie stuff for film editing. Against a side wall: lines of thumbnail photos, a short caption to …
Forget the director, the DP, the script, the crew, the sets, the camera, the catering lorry, costumes, make-up, portaloos, SFX. Forget the actors even. I know now: films get made on gaffer tape! After five weeks, they ‘wrapped’ the filming of Tell it to the Bees last Saturday. It was an extraordinary experience, for me, …
So next week they begin filming Tell it to the Bees, somewhere north of Glasgow. I am VERY excited, and slightly weirded out. It’s a very odd experience. My fiction, and now also somebody else’s interpretation of my fiction. The two female leads are to be played by Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger. And the part of …
The screenplay for Tell it to the Bees has just now been delivered to the BFI, after much deliberation about the ending, in particular. I feel very fortunate that both the director, Annabel Jankel, the people at Red Production Co, and Irena Brignull, the scriptwriter, have such a strong take on the book, and that …