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The Red Rose is a 25-minute fantasy short. The film’s lead actress is the Red Rose of the title, and a red-rose flower is a pivotal, symbolic part of the storyline. Set entirely to the music of Tchaikovsky, and featuring the talents of the young dancers in a leading ballet school, the film is dialogue-free. The actors must therefore possess something of the “Steve McQueen factor” and be able to express drama through emotion and reaction without recourse to words.

Each scene begins in film-maker Ian Woodward’s country garden just outside London, from where, due to the vivid and often colourful imagination of the film’s Young Woman (also known in the script as the Girl), it develops into moments of romance and fantasy, invariably involving her idealized, brought-to-life young man (the lead actor).

It will be filmed in the countryside, and at certain manor-house locations, around the Kings Langley area of Hertfordshire – just 25 minutes by train from Euston Station to Kings Langley Station. The film will be screened at film festivals around the world; the resulting exposure for the cast will be vast and influential.

The Red Rose has no budget but the potential for the film’s two leading actors to explore anew their dramatic ability through dialogue-free acting will be immense and rewarding.

The filming with the leading actress and leading actor will be done in three separate blocks of three days each, perhaps with a week’s break between each block, starting sometime between the middle and the end of August. In addition, a church wedding scene, involving all four actors and ten or so young ballet dancers, will be done on one day in September; and a Farewell Scene, again involving the same cast numbers above, on another day.

Writer/film-maker Ian Woodward is the author of more than 30 books, including Audrey Hepburn: Fair Lady of the Screen (never out of print since first published in 1984 and soon to be issued as an eBook); Glenda Jackson: A Study in Fire and Ice; The Werewolf Delusion; and (poetry) Ring Out Wild Bells and Poems for Christmas.

His last three films - Too Many Ghosts, Silly Robin, and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields - have won major awards at international film festivals, from the United Kingdom to the United States, from Australia, South Korea and across Europe to Poland, the Ukraine, Italy, Estonia and the Czech Republic. He has won two Best Cinematography awards at the Seoul International Festival; and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields was voted Best Film of the Festival at the Melbourne International Movie Festival 2011.

Role to be cast: THE YOUNG MAN: In all the scenes in which he appears the Young Man is the Girl’s head-in-the-clouds, romanticized idea of a handsome young man who makes young ladies like her go weak at the knees. He exists only in her imagination�and in these magical moments his effect on her is akin to the effect of a female fan meeting her movie hero or pop idol. The actor playing him must radiate easy charm and a lingering mystery�he really is too good to be true, the Girl must be thinking! (The other roles of the Young Girl, the Grand Duke and the Monk have been cast.)

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