Two Hats Films
Two Hats is a not-for-profit organisation set up by a collective of professional actors, writers, musicians and directors in 1997 to produce high quality theatre and film for the local communities in Warwickshire.
With many critically acclaimed productions to their name, the company maintains this ethos
Calling the Tune is a co-production with Wartime Productions
Based on Roger Harding’s 2002 studio production, Calling the Tune starts in 1980 in the Loire Valley, mid-western France. Elizabeth visits her estranged, housebound mother Gisele. But is she really housebound ? Why has she not ventured out for 30 years ? Why does she keep the shutters closed ? Slowly Elizabeth teases out Gisele’s past – though she would much rather not reveal the real reason for her shame.
But music lies at the heart of the mystery .....
Shooting is now complete
- We have enlisted the help of Lee Craven pyrotechnics to liven things up a bit.
Here is a sample of the explosive effects produced by Lee Craven
We are very happy to have been working with Wartime Productions who helped us shoot the flashback scenes. We shot this sequence for publicity purposes
Lockdown Recitals
During lockdown we have not been idle, recording four lockdown recitals at the Holst Museum, with social distancing. We hope to have the recitals edited and uploaded by the time the museum opens, hopefully on Holst's birthday in September. Sukushi, John, Adam and Aaron were a joy to work with
Just before lockdown, we completed shooting A Woman's Life by Sally Jones, at the Holst Museum in Cheltenham. Imagining a meeting between Clara Holst
and Mrs Beeton, Sally's script highlights the living conditions of women about a century apart. A Woman's Life stars Emmeline Braefield and Emma Wilkes
A trailer is available here
STOP PRESS
AWL is now on Film Hub, which helps distribute films to different channels. It went live on 29 November and has already been taken up by a channel called Reveel, so here's hoping more channels pick it up soon!
Stop Press
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Shooting of A Woman's Life has been completed, with a couple of days of pickup shots at the Gustav House Museum in Cheltenham - a lot of the shots lit by candle light. Pleased with the results !
The Shakespeare Hauntings
We made a TV pilot for Birmingham TV and also entered it for the Filming Shakespeare competition - for which it was sortlisted. Andrew Cullum, Kate Willis and Gus MacDonald brought the characters to life
Trailer for The Shakespeare Hauntings
The Wrong Funeral
When octogenarian John Corvin innocently mounts a one-man production of King Lear, he inadvertently exposes a trail of suspicion, corruption, deception and carnage leading all the way to the Ministry of Defence - involving MI5 surveillance, murderous undertakers and five of the world’s most detested dictators. The Wrong Funeral – featuring the slowest car chase in cinema history. An Independent British feature length film
Trailer for The Wrong Funeral
We filmed about 30% of the film in six days for use in pitching. Since then there have been about 26 re-writes - and the screenplay is now much tighter and funny, thanks to the input of Joe Pavlo.
In these dark days, maybe a black comedy is exactly what is required ....