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British Indie Mad as Birds Unveils Cannes Film Market Slate (EXCLUSIVE)


U.K. independent production outfit Mad As Birds has unveiled a slate spanning genres and will commence sales on them at the Cannes Film Festival.

U.K. independent production outfit Mad as Birds(“Set Fire to the Stars,” “The Almond and the Seahorse”) has unveiled a slate spanning genres and will commence sales for them at the Cannes Film Festival market. On the upcoming slate, “The Night Guest,” written and directed by Jones, is described by the filmmaker as “a contained thriller, two brilliant actresses going head-to-head in a beach house with an imaginary tiger.” Casting is under way and a Canadian co-producer is being finalized. Jones, writer Joe Bone, Mad As Birds and Danish filmmaker Kristoffer Nyholm previously collaborated on “The Vanishing,” starring Gerard Butler and Peter Mullan, that bowed at Sitges in 2018.

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