Rosita Clarke
I WILL Film
Screenwriter and Filmmaker
Dorchester, United Kingdom
June 2022
> 2 weeks ago
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About Rosita
Former Drama teacher, theatre director. film maker and now, screenwriter. Rosita Clarke has recently won several awards and gained many laurels in film festivals for both ‘Liesbet’, a WW2 drama with a unique perspective and ‘Too Much Succulence, Mr. Hardy’, a biopic of her much loved and admired novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy. Half Dutch and half Dorset.
Settling into screen writing came after the recent success of her second feature film, ‘The Other Side of the Lake’, now screening on Prime Video. Rosita won Best Original Screenplay at the Nice International Film festival (June 2021) and Best Editing of a feature film at the London International Film festival (Feb 2021) and Best Director at Cork Women’s International Festival (2017). Yes, Rosita wrote, directed and edited the film which was self- funded with the help and support of family, friends and former students.
While still teaching Rosita made the first ever feature film produced by a school and solely starring young people. Called ‘crazy’ by everyone, she undertook the writing, directing and just about everything else, all in her own time; casting her then student Ben Jones in the role of Sargent Troy, (now Ben Hardy whose acting career is doing quite well to say the least).
Since this success Rosita has completed two screenplays,: ‘Liesbet’ inspired by the true story of her mother during the last nine months of the war in Europe. Liesbet is in fact, part of a trilogy; the second, ‘Liesbet’s Girls’ is being written as we speak and the third will be, ‘Liesbet’s Demetia’.;: And 'Too Much Succulence Mr. Hardy' covering the years 1889 - 1892 when Hardy was struggling with the writing of 'Tess of the D'Ubervilles.
Rosita is determined to get her voice heard. They say you are never too old and she really believes that.
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INTO THE FIRE Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Drama Occupied Holland, 1944 and a young woman, who finds herself already on the wrong side of her countries' politics, makes a series of bad choices which gradually take her further into the depths of depravity as she struggles to escape her involvement with the Nazis and return home.
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Too Much Succulence, Mr Hardy. Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Drama Victorian England, and established novelist, Thomas Hardy, strives for further fame and recognition with his latest novel, "Tess of the D’Urbervilles", as he challenges head on, society’s values, double standards and hypocrisy but all the while he fights against censorship, criticism, a problematic marriage and his own bleakness of thought.
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Liesbet: Winner, Best Unproduced Script (Toronto International WomenFilm Festival )
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Liesbet: Semi Finalist Best Unproduced Script ( Sunvale Screenplay Contest)
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Liesbet: Semi Finalist Original Screenwriting (Rotterdam Independent Film Festival)
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Liesbet: Semi Finalist Best Unproduced Script.(Paris Women Festival) tival
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Liesbet: Semi Finalist (Toronto Independent Festival of CIFT)
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Too Much Succulence Mr. Hardy: Quarter Finalist Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 5
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The Other Side of The Lake : Best Original Screenplay ( NIFF)
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The Other Side of The Lake: Best Editing of a Feature Film (LIFF)
(2021)
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