Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West love affair story to get film treatment July 2, 2016 - 17:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - British director Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn) is set to direct Dame Eileen Atkins’ script Vita and Virginia which chronicles the romance and friendship between authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Deadline reports. Mirror Productions’ Evangelo Kioussis will produce alongside Katie Holly of Blinder Films and Simon Baxter who will serve as EP. Button’s BIFA-nominated debut feature film Burn Burn Burn was backed by Creative England and made its world premiere at the London Film Festival last year. That dark comedy starred Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie and Jack Farthing (“Poldark”). Pic recently screened at the Seattle Film Festival in Official Competition, and Button won the BFI LOCO Film Festival’s Discover Award for an outstanding debut feature back in April. Button is also attached to direct Shore, a postapocalyptic sci-fi pic written by Melissa Iqbal and produced by Kitty Kaletsky of Midnight Road Entertainment. Photo: Hulton Archive   Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”.   Partner news |  Latest news Viva sees growing demand for cloud services  In recent years, medical institutions are starting to make use of Viva’s cloud servicesTurkey replacing term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks The Turkish Ministry of Education is replacing the term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks.Armenian, German presidents meet in Berlin Armenian and German Presidents Vahagn Khachaturyan and Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Berlin.Armenia assumes presidency of Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities The Commission on Television and Radio of Armenia said it expects productive cooperation in various formats. |
