One Life: Q&A with Producer Joanna Laurie and Writer Lucinda Coxon

WFTV members are invited to this online discussion with Producer Joanna Laurie and Writer Lucinda Coxon about their new film One Life, which tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. 

Joanna and Lucinda will be in conversation with Wendy Mitchell, sharing behind the scenes insight to the development and making of One Life, from developing the story to the creative and editorial decisions they took in their roles to produce this powerful film.

There will be an opportunity to ask the panel questions during the last 15 minutes of the session.

You can watch the trailer here.

Event Schedule

18:25: Please join the webinar waiting room

18:30: In conversation with Joanna Laurie and Lucinda Coxon, chaired by Wendy Mitchell

19:15: Audience Q&A

19:30: Finish

SYNOPSIS

One Life tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who,in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion.He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?

Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him tosome surviving children –now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.

Biograhies

Lucinda Coxon – Co-Writer

Lucinda Coxon’s screenplays include The Little Stranger starring Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson, The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander (who won an Academy Award),Wild Target starring Emily Blunt and The Heart of Me starring Paul Bettany and Helena Bonham Carter. Her four-part adaptation of Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White was screened to great critical acclaim on BBC2.

Her stage plays include Alys Always at the Bridge Theatre, Herding Cats at the Theatre Royal Bath and Hampstead Theatre, The Eternal Not for the National Theatre, the award-winning Happy Now for the National Theatre, Yale Rep and Primary Stages New York, Nostalgia and Vesuvius for the South Coast Repertory heater, Improbabilities for Soho Poly, Wishbone and Waiting at the Water’s Edge for the Bush Theatre. Her plays for National Theatre Connections include What Are They Like?, The Shoemaker’s Incredible Wife from Federico García Lorca and The Ice Palace from Tarjei Vesaas.  She has commissions for new work from The Bridge and from Yale Rep.

Joanna Laurie - Producer

Joanna Laurie joined See-Saw Films in 2020 as a film producer and television executive producer. Joanna’s recent projects include The Son, written by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, directed by Florian Zeller and starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.

Joanna joined See-Saw after over a decade at Number 9 Films before becoming an independent producer. Her producing credits include critically acclaimed Hyena by writer director Gerard Johnson which opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the coveted Fantàstic Òrbita prize at Sitges,and The Limehouse Golem written by Jane Goldman, directed by Juan Carlos Medina and starring Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke.

How will the online event work?

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