iFeatures - LADY MACBETH is Greenlit!

iFeatures is a low budget feature film initiative funded by Creative England, the BFI, BBC Films and Creative Skillset.

This year's greenlit films have been announced at Cannes and include LADY MACBETH. 

Written by Alice Birch (winner of the George Devine award for Most Promising Playwright 2014, winner of the Arts Foundation Award 2014 for Playwriting) and directed by William Oldroyd (Sundance winner), LADY MACBETH is a thrilling 19th Century tragedy. Oscar nominee Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly produces. 

"The unsettling tale of a young woman’s relentless struggle for control and happiness within the constraints of a watchful society. Rooted in the wilds of Northumberland, Katherine finds herself childless and friendless, stifled by her marriage of convenience to a rich industrialist twice her age. She yawns about the empty house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood and finds nothing to love or occupy her for even the briefest moment. Sebastian, a worker on her husband’s estate seduces her, not realising that her passions, once awoken, will attach to him so fiercely that she will stop at nothing to keep hold of him."

For updates on the project via twitter, follow #LadyMacbethFilm and @ladymacbethfilm. Check out their Storify page here. More information about the project can be found here.