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Sep 22, 2016 · Origins. Canning recalled that he, Sherman and Davis were attending Sundance 2013 with their TV project Top of the Lake when they started talking about making a film adapted from the memoir...
- Two Journeys
- Passage to India
- A Cast That ‘Goes Deep’
- A Challenging Production
After the rights were secured, the team brought in screenwriter Luke Davies, who had written the Australian drama Candy in 2006 — which was the film that introduced the future See-Saw partners: Sherman had produced the film, sold by Canning when he worked at Renaissance Films. Davies had also written a 2015 See-Saw feature, Anton Corbijn’s Life. Th...
Weinstein, who served as executive producer on Lion, also has special connections to India. “I was moved by the piece,” he says simply. “Twelve years ago I started seeing Georgina [Chapman, now his wife]. She’s involved in fashion, and her inspiration has always been India. Her family had lived there and we named our now six-year-old daughter India...
UK actor Dev Patel, who plays adult Saroo, was determined to be a part of Lion, even before the script was written. “I was way too premature, they had a big white board with post-its on it at that point,” Patel says of his first meeting with Davis and Davies. Davis admits he was at first skeptical about Patel being right for the role. “I think he’s...
The film started shooting in January 2015 in India, moving to Australia in April, where filming took place in Hobart, at Mount Wellington, and Cockle Creek in Tasmania. In India, the production shot in Kolkata’s Howrah Station and Howrah Bridge, and Shalimar Station, Flurry’s Cafe and the bankside of the Hugli River (some of the actual locations wh...
Mar 30, 2017 · Davies had worked on Candy, based on his own autobiographical novel, with Sherman producing, while Canning was the film’s European sales agent and an executive producer. Canning and Sherman became friends, formed See-Saw and went on to make The King’s Speech.
- Harry Windsor
Jan 9, 2024 · For the past year, after the replica was activated by the headlights on Terrance’s car, we’ve seen Hen fall in love with the replica version of Junior – who reminded her of the Junior she...
- Adam Starkey
Mar 5, 2018 · As with Lion, Mary Magdalene was produced by Canning and Sherman’s See-Saw, with TWC handling US distribution on many of the UK-Australian outfit’s productions dating back to The King’s Speech.
Dec 7, 2016 · Australian director Garth Davis caught wind of Brierley’s story in a 2013 article producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman handed him while he was directing episodes of “Top of the Lake”...
Jan 1, 2017 · Garth: The producers, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, had worked with Luke before and serendipitously, I was lurking around another project and had come across Luke’s work as well. We engaged him on the project and never looked back really.
