FEATURE FILM
FEATURE FILM
Rivermouth
Pre-production
Feeling trapped and facing a dead end, cleaner Natalie and ex-soldier Ramsey embark on a dangerous affair, seizing the chance to reinvent their reality and themselves.
Set in post-industrial Hull, Rivermouth explores transgressive sexuality and the way violence and intimacy can create freedom. It follows three characters hemmed in by their circumstances who courageously attempt to remake their worlds.
When Natalie assumes her friend’s identity to care for a recently blinded young man, Ramsey (23), she doesn’t anticipate embarking on a thrilling and unsettling affair. Ramsey believes she’s someone else—single, young, blond—and the anonymity frees them both. Through subversive power play, they rediscover parts of themselves they thought were lost forever.
CREDITS
Director: Caitlin French McLeod
Writers: Bruce McLeod, Naomi Wallace
Producer: Kees Kassander and Jessica Palmarozza
Cast: Maxine Peake, Tom Lewis
City Of Salt
In Development
When a funeral forces journalist Karim to return to Jordan, his encounter with a teenage love after 20 years leads to a confrontation that threatens to unravel them both.
City of Salt is a feature film based on the short "one like him".
Loosely based on Tareq Baconi’s memoir “Fire In Every Direction” and Caitlin French McLeod’s short film ‘one like him’, ‘City of Salt’ follows the story of Karim, a journalist of Palestinian descent who grew in Amman, Jordan. As a teenager, Karim realises that he is in love with his best friend, Ramzi. But when he finally admits his feelings, his world is turned upside down and he is exiled from his community. The film picks up Karim’s story when he returns to Amman for the first time as an adult. We learn what happened between the men back in 1990s Amman, showing a side of Middle Eastern culture rarely captured in cinema - how layers of politics, family and complex relationships complicate the multiplicity of love.
CREDITS
Director: Caitlin French McLeod
Co-Writers: Caitlin French McLeod, Tareq Baconi
Producer: Jessica Palmarozza
SHORT FILM
Alanne
In Development
A Gothic-suburban comedy about love and a tango dummy.
In an ordinary house, on an ordinary street, something extraordinary lurks;
Alanne may not be human, but he helps Heather and Callum to come alive.
CREDITS
Director: Caitlin French McLeod
Writer: Bea Roberts
Producer: Lucy Grayson