Byline: GORDON BARR
The screening, featuring Q&A with key cast and crew, provides film fans with the first opportunity to see the new feature, which will tour other UK cities this autumn.Co-director Philip Shotton, explains the innovative filming techniques that set the mood for this unsettling new film: "The whole film was workshopped with the young cast, using improvisational acting techniques to create believable characters and naturalistic performances.Rising Tide's cast and crew all hail from the North East, making Newcastle a natural choice for the premiere. Internationally-renowned Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell and several North East bands add a foreboding, atmospheric soundtrack to the film as the storm clouds gather over the Northumberland coast.Rising Tide was funded and produced by Northern Film and Media - the Newcastle-based creative industry development agency."Despite the hardships it was a fantastic experience for cast and crew alike - we all enjoyed it so much we've already filmed the sequel!" Joe MacCabe, who plays Joe in Rising Tide, adds: "The production process was exciting for me as the film was devised through workshops and various scenes were created on set through improvisation. This kind of development helped create a raw and distinctive film with fantastic performances.CAPTION(S):The island has a hold on the group as the gentle lapping sea on the sunny shores turns sinister and the realisation dawns that they are prisoners.Exams finished and the holidays in full swing, it should have been a memorable last adventure with friends before going separate ways. It was, but for all the wrong reasons.As the friends raise a toast 'to friendship', Izzy, the newest member of the close-knit group, is hiding a devastating past which follows them to the fateful camping trip to the tidal Holy Island.RISING Tide, an innovative, ghostly new British independent film directed and set in coastal Northumberland will premiere at Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema next week.The development of the film was intense and involved all 10 actors working closely together before filming had even began. This created the vital on-screen chemistry you see in Rising Tide which makes it such a raw and unique film." * Rising Tide premiere screening and Q&A, Wednesday, August 17, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, at 6pm.But worse than the spectres of the island are the ghosts of Izzy's past, ghosts that will never leave her alone and are intent on ensuring she never has friends again.First settled on by Monks who were murdered in a bloody battle by Vikings in 793AD, the spiritual island has its own ghosts as the friends are trapped by the rising tide.NORTHERN FRIGHTS Rising Tide is a ghost story about a students'camping trip to Holy Island that doesn't go according to planA sinister story about a group of college leavers embarking on their last adventure together, the film is a coming-of-age ghost story about friendship, loss and revenge.
NORTHERN FRIGHTS Rising Tide is a ghost story about a students'camping trip to Holy Island that doesn't go according to plan
