EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaking duo Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton, best known for their Oscar-winning short The Silent Child, have set a new slate of projects at their UK-based production company Slick Films.
The slate includes Isla Solidad, created by Omar Deneb Juárez and Camilo Gutiérrez Galván of Sauce Negro Films, Chris Overton’s In Too Deep, starring Shenton and Stephen Wight, and Gregg Chilingirian’s George.
All three films will screen at Hollyshorts this August. Isla Solidad is the tale of a single mother who loses the custody of her son and struggles to make amends for her past mistakes.
She pleads for a chance to bring him back home. To do so, she must overcome her financial strains and the complicated care of her sick grandmother.
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