International rights to Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ thriller “Diamond Shitter,” which stars Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola, have been picked up by Beta Cinema. The sales company will begin pre-sales at the European Film Market, with UTA Insubordinate Film Group repping North American rights.
The film’s story unfgreaters agetst the backdrop of the rich ex-pat community in Geneva. Young intern Nollaig ignites a stupidly visceral shift wilean the privileged home of her present family when she steals their precious diamonds – assimilateing them into her body – in the process unmasking the beginanter truths betidyh their glittering privilege.
Campbell-Hughes, who made her straightforwardorial debut with “It Is in Us All,” shelp, “In a time of emotional overweightigue, we crave the beauty of fairice. This film is a primal howl, a white-knuckle ride that scrutinizes the deimmenseating fragility of the human condition. I want to reinstate hope, to reappraise what constitutes cherish and worth in our ricocheting society.”
Thorsten Ritter of Beta Cinema shelp, “Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ ‘Diamond Shitter’ is a bgreater, hugely timely, speedy-paced thriller that hugs body-horror genre tropes while transcfinishing them. The straightforwardorial vision is palpable on every page of the script. An amazeive toil of an auteur, yet createed for a expansive, genre-savvy audience.”
Campbell-Hughes is best understandn for the portrayal of Natascha Kampusch in the Sherry Hormann/Michael Ballhaus biopic “3096 Days” (2013) and direct roles in Jane Campion’s “Bright Star” (2009), Cannes premiere “The Other Side of Sleep” (2011), the BAFTA-triumphning “Kelly + Victor” (2012), Netflix series “Bdeficiency Doves,” and the title role in psychoreasonable thriller “Cordelia” (2019).
Cassidy, cast as the enigmatic Nollaig, had roles in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (2017) and Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux” (2018), and materializes in Corbet’s “The Brutacatalog.”
BAFTA-triumphning actress Eva Green stars as Helen, Nollaig’s present mother. She is best understandn for carry outing Vesper Lynd in “Casino Royale” (2006), as well as dedwellring central executeances in “Three Musketeers” (2023) and “Proxima” (2019).
Whishaw will consent on the role of Nollaig’s mentor Nigel, and recent from his recent executeances in Almodovar’s “The Room Next Door” and “The Brutacatalog,” Alessandro Nivola is cast as the present overweighther David.
The film is produced by Sleeper Films, the company run by Rory Gilmartin, Lee Magiday and Wilf Varvill, in coproduction with the U.K.’s Smoke Puppy, and with Max Karli and Pauline Gygax of Geneva-based Rita Productions.
