DIRECTOR'S NOTE

Overall, I want to offer the audience a quiet but intense vision of complex emotions and relationships that are intricately bound up with world events. Verity’s journey leads to a moment of self-awareness that goes beyond knowing her father’s crimes, to realising that she is more than a daughter: she is an individual with her own future to shape.

The Team

The Verity’s Summer team includes co-producer Emma Biggins, who is currently on Screen South’s prestigious ‘Develop, Connect, Produce…’ Scheme. My ongoing collaborator is script editor Preti Taneja, who has an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) from Royal Holloway, London. Working with cinematographer Sara Deane allowed me to preserve the authentic colour palette of the locations. Sara brought a great team, attention to detail and sympathy to the dramatic action with a ‘natural lighting’ concept.