STARS OF TOMORROW FILM-MAKERS
From left Henrietta Ashworth, Dominic Buchanan, Daniel Wolfe and Jessica Ashworth
the film-makers UK STARS
JESSICA AND HENRIETTA ASHWORTH Screenwriters “It is like a hive mind,” explain 24-year-old twin screenwriting sisters Jessica and Henrietta Ash- worth. Or at least Henrietta explains, and Jessica agrees. Their script Olivia And Jim, a road-trip comedy-drama, came joint third on the 2011 Brit List and has been optioned for development by Diarmuid McKeown, the former managing direc- tor of Cloud Eight Films, for his new set-up Equa- tion Pictures. “One of us comes up with an idea and tells the
other,” says Henrietta of their technique. “I don’t think we would do it without each other.” Jessica adds: “It is a relaxing way to write, with
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your twin. We don’t have to explain things to each other.” They have always written together, says Henri-
etta, and completed their first feature spec The Shakespeare Club when they were 15. Jessica also works as an actress, and will next be seen in John Osborne’s The Devil Inside Him at the White Bear Theatre in London, whereas Henrietta “just wants to be a screenwriter”. To that end, she has received the prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Award to begin a Masters in fi lm at Uni- versity College London this year. The pair have also been picked up for US representation by Jenny Maryasis at UTA. And they will continue writing together: “We bring separate things to the
table as we grow up,” explains Jessica. “But we still have that hive mind working.” Contact Camille McCurry, United Agents +44 (0) 20 3214 0803
cmccurry@unitedagents.co.uk
DOMINIC BUCHANAN Producer Young producer Dominic Buchanan has just joined commercials and content company Stink Films as their head of fi lm, marking a swift rise for the 30-year-old London native. Having pro- duced the Cannes Un Certain Regard title Gimme The Loot, which won the grand jury prize at this year’s South By Southwest, Buchanan is also
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Photographed in the Infi nity Suite at The Langham, London
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