This post first appeared on Ren’s Patreon page.
I’m pleased to have better news than last time. As I previously explained, low Patreon membership has scuppered my original plan to shoot the whole of Season Three this summer, but all is not lost.
The season has five episodes and two of those have entirely different locations and a mostly different cast from the other three. I’ve therefore decided to split the season into two production blocks: Block One, consisting of episodes 302 and 304, will shoot this July as planned; Block Two, comprised of episodes 301, 303 and 305, will film at a later date when funding permits.
Nothing will be released until the season is complete, but at least by filming Block One this summer, which we have just enough Patreon funding to do, we can get ahead on the post-production work for those two episodes.
I can now announce the directors for these episodes…
Award-winning writer-director Sherice Griffiths will helm 302. Sherice recently gained her first TV directing credit as 2nd Unit Director on the BBC series Miss Austen and has directed a number of successful short films which have been screened at BIFA-qualifying film festivals like The Sunderland Short Film Festival and Unrestricted View Film Festival. In 2023 she won The British Comedy Guide’s Production Award and the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Award.
304 will be directed by Ashram Maharaj, who worked in several capacities on Season One before joining our writing team in 2019. Ashram’s love of story and characters began at a young age after seeing Tim Burton’s Batman. He was involved in two high-profiled Lord of the Rings fan releases – The Hunt For Gollum and Born of Hope. He continued to work on features and on award-winning shorts in different roles and departments. In 2010, he directed his first short film, Diary, a drama about loneliness and rejection. He also co-wrote a feature, Red Mist, with Sabina Sattar, Producer of 2008 BAFTA Cymru-nominated feature Summer Scars.
Sherice, Ash and I visited Burleigh Hill Farm yesterday to assess which scenes can be filmed there. The next step is to find the actors who will play new roles, so look out for a casting notice soon.