2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Charlie Stratton’s Seacole

With some television work and one feature under his belt In Secret (TIFF ’13), Charlie Stratton began lensing Seacole back in March of 2019 with players Sam Worthington, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Numan Acar, Sylvia Hoeks and Sean Delaney. This sophomore project was shot in Serbia and Los Angeles.

Gist: Co-written by Dianne Houston, Marnie Dickens and Stratton, this follows Mary Seacole (Mbatha-Raw), a pioneering Jamaican nurse who became known during the Crimean War for her care of wounded British soldiers. Seacole’s self-sacrifice on the front lines and fierce, adversarial relationship with Florence Nightingale during the war made her famous in her time.

Production Co./Producers: Billy Peterson.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.