12. Thomas Pollock - Writing through time; telling stories from history
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Delving back in time to World War 1, we discuss the ambitious period film, Victories, directed by Thomas Pollock. With a win for Best Writing at the Nov/Dec 2019 bi-monthly awards, we explore Thomas’ experience of developing a writer/director partnership over multiple films. More specific to this entry, we learn about the team’s effort to tell both sides of the story in war and about creating compelling characters that may typically be an obvious villain. We also ask about Thomas’s efforts in acquiring the authentic props, costumes and narrative elements that helped to complement the well-written story. https://www.frontierpictures.co.uk/  https://www.facebook.com/FrontierPictures/  https://twitter.com/frontierpics  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOXIEmTx8wwXMAf3OeoPJ4A
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