Amma Asante’s ‘Where Hands Touch’ Starts ProductionPosted by Wilson Morales
November 1, 2016
Source: Shadow and Act
Production has begun on Amma Asante‘s next film, “Where Hands Touch,” a coming-of-age love story set in World War II Berlin.
The leads of the film are Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay, with Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet added to the cast.
MacKay will play a member of the Hitler Youth who begins a romance with a biracial German teen (Stenberg) in 1943 Berlin. Asante wrote and will direct the film, which is a project she has been working on for 10 years.
Charlie Hanson is producing and Academy Award-nominated British-Nigerian cinematographer Remi Adefarasin is Director of Photography.
“Where Hands Touch” is a Tantrum Films / Pinewood Pictures Production, co-produced with UMedia and financed by BFI, Isle of Man, HeadGear and British Film Company.
Asante’s latest film, “A United Kingdom,” had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and was picked up by Fox Searchlight for US distribution in 2017. That film stars David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike in a love story based on the true tale of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams.Shadow and Act
