David Harewood “Blown Away” By Passion Of Young, Diverse Filmmakers Who Persuaded Him To Star In A Short Film
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: David Harewood, star of stage and screen, was intrigued when an unsolicited short-film screenplay entitled Man to Man arrived in his inbox. “I literally read it in 20 minutes.
I was moved by it,” he enthused of the script by youthful writers Selorm Adonu and Ignatius Kalule.Harewood read Man to Man a second time and soon was off to a meeting with its director Shehroze Khan and members of Million Youth Media, one of the fastest-growing platforms for young filmmakers in the UK.
It’s run under the auspices of Fully Focused Productions, a community network of young creatives who hail from across the UK, and further.
Watch a clip from the film below.”I was moved by their stories, of where they came from, how they approach the business, and I agreed to meet with them,” Harewood told Deadline.“They’re all kids!” he marveled. “I was blown away by their passion for filmmaking.
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