‘The Physician’

BBC’s Dominique Moore to Star alongside Ben Kingsley and a host of stars in the remake of Noah Gordon’s medieval drama ‘The Physician’

Dominique Moore is known for her comedic roles in top rating shows like the BBC’s BAFTA winning series Horrible Histories and lately in the just released BBC Comedy Social Media Addict.  Now she transcends onto the big screen alongside Ben Kingsley, in the UFA adaptation of Noah Gordon’s bestseller The Physician. 

This talented young actress is no stranger to playing historical characters having brought to life the long forgotten heroine Mary Seacole in Horrible Histories on CBBC and BBC with Stephen Fry.  She will be travelling back in time again for her role in The Physician, an adaptation of Noah Gordon's bestseller about an 11th-century Englishman who travels to Persia to study medicine.  This exciting period drama will be filmed for the big screen and has an all-star cast attached; Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Payne, French actor Olivier Martinez (Unfaithful, S.W.A.T.) and of course Dominique Moore.  The Physician has secured €3.3 million ($4.6 million) in regional and funding and production begins in Morocco and Germany next month.   Originally published in 1986, The Physician has sold more than 21 million copies worldwide.

Dominique’s wealth of credits include lead roles in BBC shows like Hotel Trubble, My Almost Famous Family, The Queens Nose, Disconnected, ITV2’s Footballers Wives Extra Time, Channel 4's Phoneshop and Drama Kings of London. She is also known for BBC’S Little Miss Jocelyn, as well as starring in the Disney Channel series Life Bites.  Horrible Histories is currently being shown on BBC and the new BBC comedy Social Media Addic online, alongside Steve Jones as the lead character Donna Rush.  The show can be seen right here:

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Landscape Conference Screens The Exiles

How physical places affect people’s emotions – whether by inspiring fear, love or even anger – will be the subject of a University of Derby conference called Affective Landscapes.

This Friday and Saturday (May 25-26), 150 academics, researchers and others will be at the University’s Kedleston Road site, in Derby, to discuss the many different ways writers, film-makers, photographers and artists have conveyed the sensations, memories, dreams and emotions evoked by landscapes they’ve lived in or visited.

Among the speakers at the prestigious conference will be Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, USA, who will speak on Worlding; or the attempt to study human culture in a globalised era, rather than the traditional cultural studies approach looking at individual peoples, regions or nations in isolation.

The two-day event will also include a related screening at Derby’s QUAD centre of director Kent Mackenzie’s little seen film The Exiles (1968); a documentary covering 24 hours in the life of a group of relocated Native Americans living in and around Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, in the late 1950s.

The Affective Landscapes conference is being hosted by the University’s Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Studies in Literature. It follows the success of Derby’s 2009 symposium on Land and Identity.

Neil Campbell, Professor of American Studies and Faculty Research Manager at the University of Derby, said: “This conference will bring together scholars working in cultural studies, literary studies, creative writing, film and media studies, photography, fine art and many others; interested in examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to, as well as debate and interact with, landscape.

“Ideas we will be looking at include national identity, suburbia, wastelands, rural versus urban areas, and landscapes which evoke trauma and memory.”

For more information about the Affective Landscapes conference see website www.derby.ac.uk/events/affective-landscapes

Molly Maid stars in ITV’s latest expose on how some modern Brits live

Positioned as the authority in the domestic cleaning industry, Molly Maid featured alongside a number of other companies involved in cleaning up Britain in a prime time national television documentary last night entitled ‘Dirty Britain’ on ITV1 narrated by Zoe Wanamaker.

‘Dirty Britain’ was a two-part documentary which aired on ITV1 at 9pm on 15^th and 22^nd May exposing the remarkable things found behind the nation’s front doors and those personalities dedicated to their jobs in helping to clean up Britain. Often going over and above the call of duty, Molly Maid was well placed to provide some insight into the expectations from a variety of its customers. As a professional, discreet and trusted service, Molly Maid always takes great pride in maintaining the utmost care and regard for all of our valued customers.

The producers spent two days filming behind the scenes with a team from Molly Maid Wimbledon and with Franchise Owner, Sandra Redmond, in different homes each providing character led and anecdotal references on how the maids rise to the daily challenge of meeting differing customer expectations.

Commenting on the exposure, Pam Bader OBE, CEO of Molly Maid, “We were very proud to be approached to take part in such a high profile programme highlighting the great work some people do for which they often receive little recognition and are often taken for granted. We are proud of the service and quality that our maids provide to customers whose needs and expectations vary so widely and that is what we are all about.”

'MOVIE INVESTORS' LAUNCHES AT CELEBRITY CANNES FILM FESTIVAL PARTY

Movie Investors, a new international movie fund for independent and studio-backed movies is thrilled to announce its exclusive celebrity supported launch party at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The party will take place on Saturday, 26^th May at  No 100, Avenue des Anglais, Cannes, one of the most stunning villas in Cannes and the location of parties held in the past by MTV, DSquared and Puff Daddy. The party will raise awareness of and showcase filmmakers currently raising revenue for their movies, ranging from micro-budget productions of under $100,000 to big budget blockbusters of over $30,000,000.

Movie Investors are offering guests the exclusive chance to win cameos, speaking, starring, supporting and executive producer roles in the movies being financed on the website. Films included in the Movie Investors slate at launch are the first ever interactive movies from the Fighting Fantasy book franchise; including ‘House of Hell’ and ‘Appointment with F.E.A.R’ being produced by Pinewood Studios based Supertream productions and directed by Ian Patterson.

Also showcasing will be a cutting edge 3D epic science fiction film trilogy produced by MTV Film director Tim Edmund Burke and Seth Ward called ‘Planet X’ that has been described as a cross between ‘Star Wars’, ‘Avatar’ and this year’s ‘Prometheus’. The fund is also taking advantage of the huge growth in popularity of the low budget found footage genre with a stag party comedy called ‘Vegas Baby’ and new POV serial killer horror ‘L.A Slasher’.

The company also launches a new global charity idea supported by the Hollywood A-listers and a number of fractional-ownership, multiple-owner, schemes such as a new Hollywood Hills based digital effects company and a super yacht to be used for film locations and film festival events around the world.

A number of celebrities are expected to attend including Ed Norton, Bruce Willis of Wes Anderson's Cannes opener 'Moonrise Kingdom', Cannes jury members Tim Roth and Ewan McGregor, actresses Eva Longoria, Diane Kruger and actors Shia LaBeouf and Sacha Baron Cohen, who is in town promoting ‘The Dictator’. Kelly Brook, model Natasha Poly and Cheryl Cole are also expected to attend for the gifting suite at the villa run by newly launched gifting series Strangelove Gifting Suites which will see designer dresses and modern electronics gadgets given to celebrity attendees prior to the party starting.

Guests will enjoy an array of delicious cocktails by Belvedere, from 8pm to 12am, alongside music from acclaimed VJ’s The Urban Knights and international music producer Jimmy V.