Honeytrap
Production:
Director: Rebecca Johnson
The film is based upon a true story but is not a factual retelling, instead the case is used as a point to express how a young woman could end up in this situation. The story was chosen to be told in this was as the media tends to isolate the facts of young crimes, therefore portraying the offender as an emotionless individual. This film aims to present that it is in most cases more complex and tragic than imaginable, including how these people get into situations without knowing the consequences.
Producer: Victoria Lorkin-Lange
Rebecca discovered this producer through Bright Pictures. This companies mission is to produce feature films with emerging film makers that have artistic, social and commercial value.
Budget: Under one million
Funding: They received a 20K grant from the Walcot Foundation. Indiegogo raised just over $40,00. The rest came from the Trusthouse charitable foundation and Anchor Bay Presale.
Cast: The cast was put together by searching for young people via agents, theatres, schools, community centre and street casing.
Jessica Sula as Layla
Lucien Laviscount as Troy
Ntonga Mwanza as Shaun
Naomi Ryan as Shiree
Collaborations: The director collaborated with the likes of David Raedeker who worked with Top girl and won best Cinematographer award 2012. Along with Tracy Granger who as worked on an Oscar winning debut feature.
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