Luna Carmoon On The Battle Of Producing Her Debut ‘Hoard’, Being “Ghosted” By Film Four & Why She Will Never Trade The UK For Hollywood: “I’m Not Interested In Americana”
deadline.comBritish filmmaker Luna Carmoon first set plans to make her feature debut with Film Four after producing a series of buzzy short projects.
That feature, however, was put on indefinite hold after execs at the broadcaster, as Carmoon describes it, “ghosted” her. “Thankfully I didn’t sign any contracts with them.
But I was going to be in development with them,” she explains from a photography studio in London where she is currently working. “And then they disappeared for a year and I never heard from them again.” In response, Carmoon began writing a new project out of “desperation and sanctity.” The result was Hoard, which debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
The film picked up three prizes in Venice before embarking on an extended festival run, which included LFF where Carmoon won the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature.
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