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Inside Jane Campion’s Creative Process for Bright Star

I find there is very little need for official film websites – for the most part they lack imagination and serve no purpose. I took great pleasure in recently discovering Jane Campion’s official production site for her latest film (which I’ll be covering at Cannes) Bright Star.

I find there is very little need for official film websites – for the most part they lack imagination and serve no purpose. I took great pleasure in recently discovering Jane Campion’s official production site for her latest film (which I’ll be covering at Cannes) Bright Star.

The site called a “production scrapbook” is just that. A visual scrapbook laid out and keeping with the period in which the film took place. The links com across like nooks and crannies and contains storyboards, art department stuff, location pics, Valentines, Campion and Ben Whishaw notes. For the film’s synopsis: start here.

Bright Star Synopsis

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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