Director
Aisling Walsh
Starring
Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Zachary Bennett
Certificate
PG
Run Time
116 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
Canada, Ireland
Language
English
Director of Photography: Guy Godfree
Editor: Stephen O'Connell
Produced by: Bob Cooper, Susan Mullen, Mary Sexton, Mary Young Leckie
Music: Michael Timmins
Screenplay by: Sherry White
Production Designer: John Hand
Audio Described: Yes
Director Bio
Aisling Walsh
P&I - Director Bio
Aisling Walsh has written and directed feature and television films as well as directing a number of highly acclaimed television serials. She has won over 25 international film and television awards. Her film credits include the multi award-winning Song for a Raggy Boy, which she wrote and directed. She was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2011 for her direction on Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh.
Maudie
Part of the World Perspectives Strand
Sally Hawkins is at her best is this engaging and gently moving period drama, depicting the real-life story of Maud Lewis, a talented painter who refused to be hindered by her severe arthritis and went on to become one of Canada’s best-known folk artists. Her co-star Ethan Hawke is also impressive in the initially unsympathetic role of the man who, to everyone’s surprise in their remote nova Scotia community, hires Maud as his housekeeper, with the pair starting the most unlikely of romances.
Supported by Culture Ireland.