Filming has wrapped on Sasha Collington’s debut feature Love Type D, which stars Maeve Dermody (And Then There Were None, The Space Between), Oliver Farnworth (Mr. Selfridge, Coronation Street), Rory Stroud (EastEnders, Young Vic’s Ah, Wilderness), Elin Phillips (Crash) and, making his film debut, Will Firth.
After being dumped for the eleventh time in a row, Frankie Browne discovers to her dismay that she has a loser in love gene. Researchers at the Oxford Institute of Genetics have discovered a gene, which predisposes people to chronic failure and rejection. It is estimated by scientists that one in seven people have the D-type gene, and Frankie just tested positive. She’s D-type.
Frankie is distraught. What’s the point of meeting someone new, if you already know how it’s going to end' With no cure in sight (apart from lifelong celibacy/taking up a hobby), the future looks bleak. But Frankie refuses to accept her fate. She’s not going to spend the next fifty years stamp collecting ALONE. She decides to embark on a quest to change her romantic future.
Maeve Dermody, who plays the lead role of Frankie, will star in BBC One’s three-part Christmas 2015 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, alongside Aidan Turner (Poldark), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Miranda Richardson and Douglas Booth. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2009 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and the Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards (FCCAA).
Oliver Farnworth has appeared as series regular Florian Dupont in Mr. Selfridge alongside Jeremy Piven (Entourage), and also plays the role of Andy Carver in Coronation Street. He has appeared in numerous theatre productions, including playing Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the British Shakespeare Company, Blackmore in D.H Lawrence's The Widowing Of Mrs. Holyroyd at the New Vic Theatre, and in the West End: Holding The Man at Trafalgar Studios, and most recently opposite Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey) as Tony in Beautiful Thing at the Arts Theatre, London and UK Tour.
Sasha Collington is an award-winning writer and director. She has an MA in Filmmaking from the London Film School and was selected for the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam, where she spent five months developing her feature screenplay, Another Anna, and was also selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. Love Type D is inspired by Sasha’s short film Lunch Date, which was funded entirely on Kickstarter, screened at film festivals across the USA, including Aspen Shortsfest (where it won a Special Jury Recognition Award), Palm Springs Shortfest, Lunafest, Boulder Film Festival and many others.
Watch the official two-minute teaser trailer on the Love Type D
KickStarter campaign page. The project was selected as a KickStarter Staff Pick out of 764 film and video projects, and runs until 23rd October offering a range of perks.
Love Type D is a Midnight Circus Films production and is Executive Produced by Michael Halpern.
