Written and created by Justin Hardy, Muireann Price and Jack Fishburn Directed by Justin Hardy Produced by Jack Fishburn and Muireann Price Starring Georgia Maguire, Tim Plester and Royce Pierreson For all publicity enquiries please contact Caroline Henshaw Rabbit Publicity Tel: 020 7299 3685 Email: caroline@rabbitpublcity.com For press materials: http://www.vivaverve.com/press
Love me till Monday follows the story of an English girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. The film looks at how a generation of twenty-something's go in search of love. They don't 'date', or 'grab a coffee', or walk romantically along the Seine in perfectly cut trench coats. They don't hold tight to a handsome man on the back of a Vespa. They dance ironically in circles, drink far too much and snog a friend. They eat cheesy chips or cold quiche at 3am. It is a film that lies somewhere between Downton and TOWIE, between The City and the countryside, between ASBO and PhD. Love me till Monday is a story about a 25 year old middle-middle class English girl and everything she wants and deserves. A film for the funny, ugly and slightly magical English.
The team are mainly in their twenties, from Producer to Director of Photography. They came out of University and found England in a recession. The aim was to create a film which had a sense of reality and spontaneity. They wrote a tight 45 scene structure to follow, while improvising dialogue that would keep their voices alive and fresh. They managed to beg, steal and borrow camera equipment and locations. They shot in houses and on the streets of their home towns. The film is set in Reading and shot both there and in London. The people of Reading were incredibly giving with their time and resources. The film was shot over two weeks at the end of July 2012 with everyone pulling together and playing many parts. The whole film cost less than a day's shoot on Downton Abbey. The team have just finished filming their second feature film currently titled The Greatest Englishman starring Warren Brown, Steve Oram, Georgia Maguire and Terry Mynott.
Filmmakers Justin Hardy (Director) www.hardypictures.com Justin has previously specialised in directing historical films with critical and popular success. He won the Royal Television Society s first ever award for Best History Film in 2001 with The Great Plague. He won twice more in 2003 and 2005 with Invitation to a Hanging and Trafalgar Battle Surgeon. He won the Judges RTS Award in 2008 for City of Vice and received three more nominations, including one for 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth in 2010. Other credits include The Man who Crossed Hitler, The Relief of Belsen (nominated for a BAFTA and winner of Best Single Drama at The Broadcast Awards) and 37 Days for the BBC which will be aired in 2014. Justin has just finished directing The Greatest Englishman (current title) which he has made with the same team as Love me till Monday. Muireann Price (Producer) Muireann graduated from Bristol University in 2008 and began working in Television Production straight away. She has worked on award winning comedy shows such as The Inbetweeners, The Morgana Show, Very Important People, Mongrels and many more. She also co-wrote a pilot BBC sketch show A Dollop of Hull and Price and has worked for several casting Directors. Love Me till Monday is Muireann s first Producer credit. She is currently producing her second feature film The Greatest Englishman with Jack Fishburn, directed by Justin Hardy.
Jack Fishburn (Producer) Jack graduated from Harvard University in 2008 and from LAMDA in 2010. He is currently producing his second feature film The Greatest Englishman with Muireann Price, directed by Justin Hardy. Cast Georgia Maguire (Becky) Georgia trained at LAMDA and graduated in 2010. Television credits include 6Degrees series one and two (BBC), Pete vs Life (Channel 4), Missing (BBC) and Ashes to Ashes (BBC). Short films includes Burning (Charlie Hanson) and A Foreplay (Justin Hardy). Theatre includes Laburnum Grove (Finborough), Hay Fever and As You Like It (Rose Theatre, Kingston). She has just finished playing a lead in Justin Hardy's latest feature, The Greatest Englishman, with Warren Brown and Steve Oram. Tim Plester (Steve) Tim s acting credits for film and TV include: Lockout (EuropaCorp), Control (Momentum), Shifty (Metrodrome), Kick-Ass (Universal), Game of Thrones (HBO), the forthcoming Cuban Fury (Big Talk) and the BAFTA- winning short film September (APT Films). He is also an awardwinning filmmaker. His debut feature documentary Way of the Morris premiered at SXSW 2011, and was selected by UK Film Focus as one of the Breakthrough films of that year.
Royce Pierreson (HIM) Royce Pierreson graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2011. Film and TV credits include Thor 2: The Dark World (Marvel Studios), Misfits (E4), Dates (Channel 4), Holby City (BBC) and London s Burning (Channel 4). Theatre credits include Blair s Children (The Cockpit Theatre), The Hotel Plays (Defibrilator Theatre) and Scarberia (Paines Plough). Royce starts shooting a lead role in the feature film The Raven Club in November. Sarah-Jayne Butler (Vikki) Sarah-Jayne trained at LAMDA and graduated in 2010. Film credits include: A Foreplay (Justin Hardy) Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows (Warner Brothers), Ashes to Ashes (BBC) & Great Expectations (Cromwell Films). Her recent theatre credits include: This House (National Theatre), Summer & Smoke (Southwark Playhouse) and The Pitmen Painters (West End). Sarah- Jayne has just finished starring in Thark at The Park Theatre. Sarah Barratt (Carly) Sarah graduated from Bristol University in 2008. She was in the original cast of the award winning musical Jet Set Go. Further theatre credits include Hamlet (The Tobacco Factory), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (The Wickham Theatre) and Proof (The Winston Theatre). Sarah has just begun training at Drama Studio London and will graduate in 2014.