The Colour Room Screening and Q&A

Name: The Colour Room Screening and Q&A
Start: 2024-11-15T19:30:00+00:00
Location: The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore St, PL31 2JX

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore St, PL31 2JX | Bodmin, EN

In partnership with Cornwall Film Festival, we will be screening the Colour Room, followed by a Q&A with Claire Peate, a BAFTA-winning screenwriter and novelist.
The Colour Room | Dir Claire McCarthy | 1h 52m | Drama/ Romance | PG
Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton), Matthew Goode (A Discovery of Witches; Downton Abbey) and David Morissey (Britannia; The Walking Dead) star in this feature debut The Colour Room, inspired by the life of history-making ceramicist Clarice Cliff. A vivacious young factory worker, Clarice lives in the industrial British midlands of the 1920s. Shrouded in the smoke of the factories, she spends her days working in the Potteries, all while yearning to pursue her creative ambition. Driven by this, Clarice takes a job with less pay and there meets the factories eccentric owner, Colley Shorter. Impressed by Clarice’s creative flair, and able to forgive her transgressions, Colley promotes her to a junior modeler. As their relationship develops, so does Clarice’s one of a kind artistry, as she sacrifices everything to escape poverty and become a trailblazer of art deco.
Claire Peate is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter and novelist, best known for her film ‘The Colour Room’ which earned Claire the prestigious BAFTA Rocliffe Award for her screenplay. Her work on the film also led to a nomination for the Debut Screenwriter Award at the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to her success in screenwriting, two of her books were selected as WHSmith’s "Pick of the Week," and she has been a featured speaker at the Hay Festival. Claire also has two pre-production films in the UK and the US.