Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his Londonset debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed Emily Beecham pictured who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project inhouse The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau The company’s Parisbased sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring Beecham The Daphne shoot kicksoff amid a highprofile year for The Bureau following the success of Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which won two Silver Bears for the lead performances of Charlotte Rling and Tom Courtenay in Berlin last year, with Rling also receiving an Oscar nomination, and is up for Outstanding British Film at tonight’s Baftas Peter Mackie Burns has made some visceral performance driven shorts including the awardwinning Milk, said Lizzie Francke, BFI senior production and development executive It is great to be able to support him on the next stage of his film career
