Sundance To Co-Produce Jane Campions The Surface Of The Lake, Carol Hunter To Co-Star

Sundance Funnel has closed an offer with BBC Worldwide to co-produce and distribute within the U.S. Jane Campions The Surface Of The Lake small-series for BBC Two. Oscar champion Campion (The Piano) and Australian director Garth Davis will direct the 7-part small compiled by Campion and Gerard Lee (Sweetie). Joining star Elisabeth Moss are Carol Hunter, which side won a Best Actress Oscar on her performance in Campions The Piano, Peter Mullan (War Equine) and David Wenham (The The almighty from the Rings). Oscar those who win Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The Nobleman Speech ) of See-Saw Films, and Philippa Campbell of Escapade Pictures are creating The Surface Of The Lake, which is provided both in 7-hour (with advertisements) and 6-hour (without) formats. The small is occur the remote mountain tops of recent Zealand and follows the disappearance of the five several weeks pregnant 12-year-old named Tui who had been last seen standing chest deep inside a frozen lake. Looking into detective, Robin Griffin (Moss), must lose herself to be able to discover the missing girl. Throughout the analysis, she collides with Matt Mitcham (Mullan), Tuis father, a nearby drug the almighty, and G.J (Hunter), a guru in a local womens camping. The situation testes Robin’s limits and transmits her on the journey of self-discovery. The surface of the Lake is definitely an emotional exploration in to the depths from the human spirit,” Sarah Barnett, Gm and EVP of Sundance Funnel, stated. Filming around the small will start in Feb in Queenstown, New Zealand, marking the very first production Campion will film in her own homeland because the 1993 The Piano. I'm deeply in love with the intense great thing about southern most New Zealand and am excited to become setting a tale within this finish around the globe paradise,” she stated.