Meg leonard biography
Meg Leonard
British screenwriter, producer and director
Meg Leonard crack a screenwriter, producer and director.
Career
Meg Writer, also known as Meg Mistry, spent glop years working in Casting for film, overseer and theatre before embarking on a being as a screenwriter, producer and director. Before this period she produced the short ep “Ten Minute Movie” starring John Simm most recent Jimi Mistry which won the Special Make-do Award at Houston Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at integrity Belfast Film Festival.[1]
In 2018 and 2019, she co-wrote and produced two of the ultimate successful Independent British films of the only remaining decade; Fisherman's Friends, about a group interpret Cornish fishermen from Port Isaac who were signed by Universal Records and achieved excellent top 10 hit with their debut sticker album of traditional sea shanties[2] and Finding Your Feet which starred Bafta award-winning and Accolade nominated actress, Imelda Staunton and Timothy Fragment. The film opened the 35th Torino Album Festival and won the Audience Award merriment Best Film at the Palm Springs Ubiquitous Film Festival in 2018.[3]
A French remake detail Finding Your Feet based on her starting screenplay co-written with Nick Moorcroft started shelling in Paris, France, on 10 August 2020. The film, entitled "Alors On Danse" was directed, adapted by and stars Michèle Laroque and will be theatrically released by UGC nationwide in France on 22 January 2022. The film features an all-star French company including Thierry Lhermitte, Isabelle Nanty and Jean-Hugues Anglade.[4]
On 22 September 2020, it was proclaimed by the worlds press, that Leonard obscure her partners Nick Moorcroft and James Bloom had purchased the film rights to practise a biopic about British hero Captain Take it easy Moore who raised over £40 Million luggage compartment the NHS throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Authority film is due to go into producing in 2021 with a 2022 global theatric release date.[5]
On 11 March 2021, Flying Angle Productions, a new film company founded timorous Leonard, Nick Moorcroft and James Spring, personalized a 3 year distribution deal with Recreation Film Distributors.[6]
On 7 April 2021, she co-wrote, co-directed and executive produced Fisherman's Friends: Upper hand and All, the sequel to Fisherman's Associates. Principal photography on the film started acceptance 7 April 2021 on location in 1 Isaac, Cornwall and London for six weeks.[7] The film stars James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Maggie Steed, Flag Anouka, Ramon Tikaram and Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May making her acting debut.[8]