The young soprano, who is trying to maintain her hearing loss, is trying to keep her secrets secrets secrets ahead of her makeup or Blake performance. It is located in the heart of Maya Butterfly. This is the feature debut of Irish filmmaker Edwina Casey, a creative partner in fast production outfits based in Dublin. Casey will pitch the project at the Venice Gap Finance market, which will be held from August 29th to 31st.
The film follows Maya, the daughter of a deaf person who was miraculously born with the gift of hearing. Choosing music as her life profession, she is now a young soprano struggling to pursue her path in the hyper-competitive world of opera. Faced with acute pressure on success, her hearing begins to fail her – the fact that she is desperate to hide.
The film is set for a week. Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” avant-garde production offers the opportunity to visit Mayan opera houses and work with world-renowned directors and feminist icon Jacqueline Rose.
As the opening night approaches, Maya struggles to hide the increased hearing loss, and the director describes the film’s ratchet tension as “every ticking clock, all at once, all at once.”
“Maya Butterfly” was produced by Richard Bolger and Conor Barry for Hail Mary Pictures and received production funds from Screen Ireland along with Paul Kennedy, a village film based in Belfast. Samsa Film is a joint development partner through the Screen Ireland and Luxembourg Film Fund’s joint development fund for women and non-binary filmmakers. The PIC was developed with the Torinofilmlab short course. Production is expected to begin in both Ireland and Northern Ireland next year.
“Maya Butterfly” is based on Casey’s experience in the opera world, where he worked as a stage director before entering the film industry. “I had many pre-aware concepts about what the world was, and I didn’t think that was for me,” she told Variety. “And I found myself in this world. It was appealing to me. The skills of the people who make it. It was a completely modern, attractive and vibrant world.”
Casey says that she was “inspired by the intense pressure that puts herself down and what she physically needed to become a singer at that level,” and in “Maya Butterfly,” she wants to talk about “an ambitious, talented, and then unashamed young woman.”
According to the director, the audience is fully told from a first-person perspective that “the journey of the (Mayan) (Mayan)” is a “audio-visual experience” and a “bold, immersive spectacle” to the audience, and is a “bold, immersive spectacle” that is owed to the “bold, immersive spectacle” that is incurred in the debt of Francis Ford Coppola’s “conversation.”
She also cited the influence of Safdie Brothers, who described it as “one continuous ride.” “I think that’s what we really want to achieve with this film,” she said.
Casey and producer partner Richard Bolger founded Dublin-based single Hale Mary Pictures in 2018, giving it a name for films such as “Youth Here” and “Seller” from the 2020s starring Anya Taylor Joy.
This was a breakout year for young clothing, with Babak Anbali’s “Hallow Road,” starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rice, and Jim Jalmusch’s “Father’s Sister Brothers,” Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicki Creep and Charlotte Rampling taking place in the competition.
Casey, who served as Ireland’s second unit director for the film, described her experience working for Jalmusch as “artistically intimidating, but truly life-changing.” “Jim is a complete artist, and being on his trajectory was an incredible moment,” she said.
With “Father Mother’s Sisters Brothers” premiering on the world’s final night of the gap-washing market in Venice, Casey, like the protagonist of “Maya Butterfly,” takes a race against time at Lido.
“We have to have a meeting, so we have to make a desperate change,” she said.
