“Romance for Indie Filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer Blossomed in the Most Unexpectioned of Places-as they shot Their 2020 DEBUTE FEATURE VIETEENG anada. “After Making Our First Film, WHICH REALLY DEALT WITH TRAUMA AND WAS VERY DARK, VERY PAINFUL TO MAKE AND”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“After Making Our First Film, Who’s Really Dealt with Trauma and Was Very Dark, Very Painful To Make and Really Delved Into The Dark Recesses Of Our Minds s The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Honey bunch, Their Sophomore Feature, Having It World Premiere in Berlin on Feb. 18.
In their First Feature, Which Bowed at the Toronto Film Festival, Sims-Fewer Player Sexual Violence Are Gradualally Reveed.
But on Honey BunchThe Canadian Filmmakers Deliberarately toned Down The Dark, Bloody Material of Their First Feature. “WE ACTUALLY BECAME A COUplen During the Making of[[Violation]. SO WHAT REALLY INSPIRED Honey Bunch WAS WANTING TO MAKE COUNTING ABOUT ABOURT, AND WANTING TO MAKE Something ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO COMMIT TO COMEONE -Fewer Explands.
WHICH is not to say that Honey Bunch is a rom com. The Film Features Glowicki Playing Diana, A Young Woman Wakes From A Coma with Fragmented Memories. She and her Husband, Homer, Played by Ben Petrie, Seek Experimental Treatments at A Remote Medical Clinic. But As Questionable Procedures Attempt to Restore Her Memory, Diana Finds Her Margin Challenge As She Begins to Question Homer’s Real Intenations for Taking Her to Firm.
Celebrity Couples Who Fall in Love On Movie Sets Are Certainly Not New to Hollywood, and Romance for the Canadian Filmmakers Followed A String of SHORT FILMS . We’d Already Made A Bunch of Short Films Together and We Were Both AFRAID. I KNOW I WAS AFRAID, ”SIMS-FEWER ADMITS.
For mancinelli, Honey Bunch is about what follows for twwo people who Fall for One Another. “Love is unpredictable, and part of what we’re exploring in this film is how we have a Deconstruct Common Ideas of Love, This Idea of a Soul Mate or The Right On You,”.
And Glowicki and Petrie Were Ideal As the Honey Bunch Leads as they married in the film and in real life. “We Were Really Attracked to this Idea of a Real Couple Who Really Really Relationship,“ Mancinelli Adds.
The Filmmakers Toy with Audience Expectations About the Main Honey Bunch Characters As Diana’s Failed Memory Is Slowly Restored Via Questionable Medical Expert
“At the very beginning, you may see one Thing, and then perhaps Later, It Really Forces You to See Maybe A Different Perspective, Another Side of the Sity. The Challenge is the Way You Kind of Evalue These Characters and the Story ITSELF, “Mancinelli Explans.
SIMS-FEWER ADDS THAT Honey Bunch WAS DESIGNED TO REVEAL A NEW LOOK FOR The Violation Directors. “WHEREAS WE’D SHOWN A VERY Particular Side of Ourselves [withViolation]People Were Seeing This One Thing: The Trauma Filmmakers. And we wanted to explore a part of OurSelves that was dyefarent, but no less poct, ”she explains.
Honey Bunch Also Stars Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie and Julian Richings, A Veteran of the Horror Genre. The Canadian Indie, Set in the 1970s, Pays Homage to Top Horror Films of That Era, Including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t look now an Invasion of the Body SnatchersThe Sci-Fi Horror Classic Directed by Philip Kaufman.
To get that Retro look, the Directors used Vintage Camera Lenses for a Slightly Dizzying Look that Helped Convey Diana and Her Fuzzy Memories As She Recalls Her Marriage. “IT’S PRIMETING THAT IS A BIT UNEXPECTED AND MAYBE A LITTLE OF A STRANGE AESTHETIC TO Get USED TO AUDIENCES OF A Thriller. But that’s Something We Found Very Exciting, ”SIMS-FUWER SAYS.
Ahead of the World Premiere of Honey Bunch In Berlin, The Filmmakers Wanta Their Latest Movie to Spark Conversations with Festival Audienses, Ahead of A Commercial Release.
“AS filmmakers, all we can hope for is the Film gets seen by a lot of people and is interesting that people people to Talk About IT,“ Mancinelli Says. “I ALWAYS HOPE PEOPLE SEE SOMETING OF THEMSELVES IN IT, BECAUSE We PUT SOMETING OF OURSELVES IN IT,“ SIMS-FUWER ADDS