(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 16 - An isolated microworld dominated by nature that has an abandoned hotel as its fulcrum, in which a mother (Saskia Reeves), in a reality with post-apocalyptic contours, grows up and keeps her two teenage children isolated.
It is the starting point of Carlo Lavagna's Shadows, a dystopian "coming-of-age thriller", produced by Andrea Paris and Matteo Rovere, which after its debut in Alice nellaittà at the Rome Film Festival, will be available, distributed by Vision Distribution, on the platforms on demand starting from November 19th (Sky Primafila, Chili, Google Play, Apple iTunes, CG Digital, Rakuten TV, The Film Club, Timvision, Infinity, I'm staying in the room).
A story of survival, obsession and rebellion that touches the environmental theme and has as its protagonist in the part of the elder sister, Alma, the almost debutant Mia Threapleton, born in 2000, twenty-year-old daughter of Kate Winslet (she had made her debut on the big screen acting with her mother at the age of 14 in The Rules of Chaos).
With her Lola Petticrew, for the character of her sister Alex.
For Mia Threapleton, daughter of Academy Award-winning actress and British director Jim Threapleton, the script for Shadows was the first one she got out of school.
An important step in the journey as an actress that she decided to undertake since she was 10 years old: "I was thrilled to be the protagonist of this story - explains Mia in the meeting via streaming -. To interpret Alma I did some research on those who live isolated and I saw some documentaries on effects of imprisonment in isolation because even Alma has never had experiences in the outside world ".
When she got the part, in the phone call with mum Kate "she told me to go ahead with confidence, because I knew that was what I wanted and I was able to do it. Then gradually she was close to me helping me to better understand some steps of the script".
Mia doesn't see the possible comparison with Kate Winslet as a problem: "It doesn't put pressure on me to have a mother like her. Her career is fantastic and she's incredibly good at what she does, I'm thrilled that someone can compare us, but to me she's just mama" .
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