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JASON CARLIN PRODUCTION DESIGNER - WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER - FEATURE FILM

JASON CARLIN PRODUCTION DESIGNER-UK-Spain production Ways To Live Forever, aims to be a life-affirming and funny story...about two kids with leukemia. The film is now in post with an eye on Toronto. The premise might sound like a tough sell - two young friends with leukemia wants to know the facts about dying and are obsessed with making lists. But Sally Nicholls' 2008 novel Ways To Live Forever was a huge hit with readers and critics. And a team of UK and Spanish filmmakers knew they wanted to bring the story to the big screen. They fought off other keen bidders to secure the rights to the book about a year ago - "we hung in there, pressed hard," producer Martyn Auty explains. Producer Auty of London-based Life & Soul Productions had been wanting to develop a project with Madrid-based writer/director Gustavo Ron of El Capitan Pictures, and Ron fell in love with the novel. The story is not as depressing as it might appear on paper, Auty says. "What attracted me to the project is that it's a story of two kids who have leukemia, and you think, 'Oh, big downer'. But it's very life asserting and upbeat, it's funny, it's true to kids' experiences. And in the performances there's something that says, 'If I'm going to die I want to make the best of the time I have.'" After securing the rights, the team quickly raised £2m (mostly from private equity) in two months and shot the film in November and December 2009 and are now in the final stages of post-production and should be ...

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