Maleficent's Elle Fanning will play the teenage Mary Shelley in A Storm in the Stars, a romantic drama scripted by Australian writer Emma Jensen, with Haifaa Al-Mansour attached to direct.
When Emma Jensen wrote the first treatment of the screenplay for 'Mary Shelley' in 2011, she could not have imagined how the climate for female-centred films- and more broadly for women’s rights - would have evolved by the time the film was released.
Georgina Jenkins' feature concept 'Blackbird' has won the AACTA Pitch: Regional Landscapes competition.
Brisbane native Emma Jensen talks to Harry Windsor about her career as a writer and the path to her first feature, 'A Storm in the Stars', starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth and set for release this year.
“It’s a great story about female friendship, it’s an aspirational story and it happened before the #MeToo movement and we’ve come clashing into that.”