Andrew Legge's LOLA to receive World Premiere at Locarno International Film Festival
Posted: 6th July 2022
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate director Andrew Legge, Cowtown Pictures and the creative team behind LOLA on the film’s Official Selection to the Locarno International Film Festival. LOLA will receive its World Premiere at the Swiss festival dedicated to indie and cutting-edge cinema, which takes place in August this year.
An Irish/UK co-production, LOLA is written by Andrew Legge and Angeli Macfarlane, from a story by Legge and Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth (Tell it to the Bees).
England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to explore their inner punk a generation before the movement comes into existence. But with World War II escalating the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.
Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini play the lead roles of Thom and Mars.
Shot on location in Kildare and Dublin, the film is produced by Alan Maher and John Wallace of Cowtown Pictures (Rialto) in association with Alice Lusher and Catryn Ramasut of ie ie productions, with funding from Screen Ireland, Head Gear Films, Ffilm Cymru Wales and ROADS Entertainment. Executive producers are Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Stephen Kelliher, Sophie Green, Dearbhla Regan, Bizzy Day, Andrew Legge and Danielle Ryan. Bankside Films is handling world sales for the film.
LOLA is a complex mix of archive and music, and acclaimed singer/songwriter, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, has composed original songs and the score for the film.
The 75th anniversary of the Locarno International Film Festival will run from the 4th - 14th August, 2022.