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EXCLUSIVE: Rising UK prima Raffey Cassidy (Killing of a Sacred Deer) has been reunited connected group pinch The Brutalist co-cast members Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience) and Oscar and Bafta nominee Guy Pearce (Memento) this past period for nan sprout of Antonia Campbell-Hughes‘ thriller High End.
Beta Cinema has unveiled first stills for nan upcoming film, which besides features Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) successful nan cast, arsenic nan accumulation approaches its last days of main photography successful Dublin, Ireland.
First announced by Deadline successful early 2025 nether nan title of Diamond Shitter, nan play is written and directed by character and head Campbell-Hughes and is her 2nd characteristic aft It Is In Us All, which won nan Extraordinary Cinematic Vision Award astatine SXSW successful 2022.
Principal photography began connected March 8 successful Geneva pinch Oscar-nominated Robbie Ryan (Bugonia) connected committee arsenic cinematographer. It is owed to wrap successful Dublin connected April 10.
Set wrong Geneva’s able ex-pat society, nan communicative follows young intern Nollaig (Cassidy), whose impulsive theft — and bodily absorption — of her big family’s diamonds detonates a profoundly buried fracture statement wrong their sparkling world. As nan façade of privilege originates to crack, nan movie charts an unsettling psychological terrain.
The accumulation besides features nan activity of casting head Dixie Chassay (Dune: Part Two), costume designer Saffron Cullane (Queen astatine Sea), and hairsbreadth & make-up designer Wakana Yoshihara (Spencer). and reunites Campbell-Hughes pinch It Is In Us All accumulation designer John Leslie, composer Tom Furse and editor John Walters.
“Antonia Campbell-Hughes is simply a standout head pinch an unthinkable unique and fearless cinematic handwriting,” commented Tassilo Hallbauer, EVP of Sales & Acquisitions astatine Beta Cinema. “With an bonzer formed and a strikingly original concept, High End will resonate powerfully crossed world audiences. We are proud to support a task that is arsenic daring arsenic it is compelling.”
Alongside her activity arsenic a director, Campbell-Hughes is known for acting credits specified arsenic her
portrayal of Natascha Kampusch successful nan Sherry Hormann/Michael Ballhaus biopic 3096 Days (2013), Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009), The Other Side of Sleep (2011), nan BAFTA-winning Kelly + Victor (2012), Netflix series Black Doves, and nan title domiciled successful psychological thriller Cordelia (2019).
Multi-award-winning producers Rory Gilmartin (Christy) and Lee Magiday (The Favourite) lead nan production, pinch Alan Maher (Everybody Digs Bill Evans) besides producing. Co-producing are Max Karli and Pauline Gygax of Rita Productions (La Ligne). The movie is produced pinch nan support of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, BCP Asset Management, nan Swiss Federal Office of Culture/FOC, Eurimages, RTS/SSR SRG, Cinéforom and Praesens Film.
It is produced by Cuala Films, successful co-production pinch nan UK’s Smoke Puppy and Geneva-based Rita Productions, successful relation pinch Sleeper Films, Carte Blanche, and Onsight. Executive Producers are Hallbauer for Beta, Greg Martin for Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Oisín O’Neill for BCP, Richard Fearn, Mickey Gooch Jr., Kyle Stroud for Carte Blanche, Tony Maher, Edmund Tuckett, Michael Wood, Nicolas Sampson and Arno Hazebroek.
The screenplay was developed pinch support from nan BFI and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
Cassidy is represented by UTA, Conway van Gelder Grant, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Riseborough, by Independent Talent, CAA, and Untitled Entertainment; Nivola, by UTA, Tavistock Wood Management, Range Media Partners, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, LLP, and Pearce, by Independent Talent, CAA, Shanahan Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, LLP. Antonia Campbell-Hughes is represented by United Agents, Entertainment 360 and The Artists Partnership.
Beta Cinema is handling world sales, pinch UTA Independent Film Group co-representing North American rights.
