Bill Nighy Joins Babak Jalali’s A Town In Nova Scotia
Production has started on British Iranian writer/director Babak Jalali’s next feature A Town In Nova Scotia.
The film started shooting earlier this month in Liverpool and it’s now been revealed that Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) leads the cast as Leon, a widowed man living in a block of council flats in the city. Makram J Khoury (Munich, The Master and Margarita) plays his best friend Saleh.
A Town In Nova Scotia is co-written with Carolina Cavalli (Amanda, The Kidnapping of Arabella), Jalali’s collaborator on his award-winning and critically acclaimed previous feature Fremont, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and also closed the Edinburgh Film Festival in the same year.
The film is produced by Naïma Abed and Émilie Georges for Paradise City, and Jennifer Monks for The Fold, with finance from BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), Liverpool Film Office (through the LCR Production Fund), Calculus, Hoopsa Films and Desmar. Executive Producers are Kristin Irving for BBC Film, Ama Ampadu for the BFI, Christopher Moll for Liverpool Film Office, Sonny Gill and Peter O’Leary for Hoopsa Films, Naomi Despres and Michèle Marshall for Desmar, Brad Noel and Mariyah Dosani for Calculus. The film was developed with BBC Film.
Further creatives include production designer Paulina Rzeszowska (Saint Maud, Censor), cinematographer Crystel Fournier (Great Freedom, Chiara), costume designer Jessica Schofield (Adolescence, Boiling Point), hair and makeup designer Caroline Rose (Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, Meat Raffle), and BAFTA winning casting director Lucy Pardee (Aftersun, Rocks).
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