Some electroshock under-the-radar news this morning as we learn that British filmmaker Luna Carmoon has been hard at work on her sophomore feature – having wrapped up filming with Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver, Éanna Hardwicke and Armande Boulanger toplining. And the major news scooped up Screen Daily is that Hélène Louvart was the cinematographer here on To Make Ends Meat. Production took place in Carmoon’s homebase of London with Erebus Pictures’ Helen Simmons and Delaval Film’s Loran Dunn returning as producers. The big question that remains is if they’ll rush to meet the Venice deadline for a Orizzonti section inclusion or wait for what will be a lot more options for 2027. She was on the Lido in 2023 for her feature debut Hoard (read review) — a Critics’ Week sidebar selection. From the looks of the info below, we expect the themes of sexuality, inherited trauma, oppression to co-exist here – and we’re curious to see if the imagery teeters around the visual idea of exploitation.
To Make Ends Meat follows three women, all in debt to despicable men, their pasts, and each other. The women find themselves bargaining to survive in the only language these men seem to understand: consumption and violence.
Screen also nabbed a direct quote from Carmoon: “This film has come from the belly of my soul, of all things, tar and family,” said Carmoon. “From my grandmother’s experiences in Newington Lodge, to my mother Toni and the cleaning houses she took me to where darker things lingered, to teddies and chicken farms….So much of my family and our memories seep deeper than you’d think. I cannot think of a more prevalent time than now to paint and stitch and weave to screen, it is my rage that has fuelled this. The weatherings of being a woman and how you are cannibalised by systems, by men, women and then by debts we sometimes write ourselves into because we believe we deserve it so….This has been made with all my blood, figuratively and yes, physically all of me. I hope I know it will rupture, splinter and cry to us all when it is stitched together.”
