A new trailer has been released for Irish sci-fi drama LOLA, from director Andrew Legge and Irish production house Cowtown Pictures.
LOLA is the feature debut of Andrew Legge (The Chronoscope), and won the prestigious Méliès d’argent award at the Trieste Science + Fiction Festival last year. It has also been chosen for official selection at a number of international film festivals including Edinburgh Film Festival 2022, Locarno Film Festival 2022, and Göteborg Film Festival 2023.
Set in England, 1941, where sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to explore their inner punk a generation before the movement comes into existence. But with World War II escalating the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.
LOLA stars Emma Appleton (Everything I Know About Love, The Witcher), Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom, Prime Suspect 1973), Rory Fleck Byrne (This Is Going To Hurt), and Aaron Monaghan (Brassic, Metal Heart).
The film is produced by Alan Maher and John Wallace of Cowtown Pictures (Rialto), in association with Alice Lusher and Catryn Ramasut of ie ie productions (Queerama), with funding from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Head Gear Films, Ffilm Cymru Wales, and ROADS Entertainment. LOLA is executive produced by Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Stephen Kelliher, Sophie Green, Dearbhla Regan, Bizzy Day, Andrew Legge, and Danielle Ryan.
