Country: UK
Year: 2025
Duration:
The story of the Wellsleys, an aristocratic family confronting harsh contemporary realities. In the film, the family is desperate to save their ancestral property due to insurmountable debts. As they struggle to find a solution, a series of disturbing events occur, forcing the Wellsleys to confront deep injustices they and other landowners, past and present, have wrought.
Biography
film director
Carlo Gabriel Nero
(United Kingdom) studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and at New York University Film School. He has directed, written, and produced award-winning feature films, documentaries, and short films for over thirty years: the short documentary Rome Around Rome, presented at Karlovy Vary; Larry’s Visit, Bronze Plaque at the Columbus Int’l Film & Video Fest; Uninvited, awarded at the Tbilisi International Film Festival; Wake Up World, Social Documentary Award at the Ischia Global Film Fest; and Eyes of St. John, Best Documentary at the London Int’l Short Film Festival. His feature film The Fever, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Angelina Jolie, received a SAG Award nomination, while The Call Out was part of the Playhouse Presents series. His documentary Sea Sorrow, co-directed with his mother Vanessa Redgrave, was selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.
FILMOGRAFIA
Roma intorno a Roma (doc, 1991), A Kid from Bensonhurst (1994), Larry's Visit (cm, 1996), La rosa e la falce (cm), Casa di ghiaccio (cm), Uninvited (L’escluso) (doc, 1999), The Fever (2004), Storie in scena (ep., The Call Out, serie tv, 2012), Eyes of St John (cm, 2017), The Estate (2025).
Declaration
film director
“My aim with this film was to create a multi-layered, complex family drama, with thriller elements, that would resonate far beyond its setting. The crux of the story has universal implications whatever our background or status and is more than just a tale of a family of English aristocrats trying to save their ancestral home. It goes further by confronting the deeply rooted socioeconomic injustices our whole world faces – and it offers a solution; one that does not conform to current conventional models. This is a subject I’ve been researching and exploring for many years, inspired by both the great nineteenth-century American social-scientist, Henry George, and renowned contemporary economist Fred Harrison, our film’s Associate Producer, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER: Carlo Gabriel Nero. CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Hoare. FILM EDITING: Leslie Healey. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Valentina Turtur. COSTUME DESIGN: Samantha Hobart. MUSIC: Simon Slater. CAST: Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, Jennifer Wiltsie, Bob Barrett, Julian Rivett, Julian Firth, Andrew Buzzeo, Barbara Leon, Lillian Nero, Paul Hilton, Phoebe Marshall, Jonny Lavell, Tom Chapman, Susanna Dalcielo, Imman Zaffrani. PRODUCTION: Carlo Gabriel Nero for Dissent Projects Ltd. COPRODUCTION: Vanessa Redgrave.
CONTACT: Dissent Projects info@dissentprojectsltd.com
