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Watch the first trail­er for mov­ing British dra­ma Body of Water

20 Aug 2020

Words by Adam Woodward

Individual with light-coloured, messy hair, looking thoughtful against a blurred blue background.
Individual with light-coloured, messy hair, looking thoughtful against a blurred blue background.
Lucy Brydon’s debut fea­ture explores the impact of an eat­ing dis­or­der on a family.

Over the past three years we’ve pub­lished a series of arti­cles called Diary of a First-Time Film­mak­er, in which emerg­ing British writer/​director Lucy Brydon’s details the mak­ing of her debut fea­ture, Body of Water (for­mer­ly Sick(er)). It’s been fas­ci­nat­ing to fol­low Brydon’s jour­ney, espe­cial­ly as she talks open­ly and with great humour about the daunt­ing but ulti­mate­ly reward­ing process of devel­op­ment, from draft­ing the script to cast­ing, shoot­ing and post-pro­duc­tion.

Today, we’re thrilled to share the offi­cial trail­er for the film, which arrives on 16 Octo­ber. A co-pro­duc­tion between Film Lon­don, BFI, BBC Films, Lions Den Films Bright Shad­ow Films and Boudi­ca Films, Body of Water tells the sto­ry of a renowned war pho­tog­ra­ph­er named Stephanie (Sian Brooke) who attempts to recon­nect with her fam­i­ly fol­low­ing a long bat­tle with chron­ic anorexia.

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Judg­ing from this teas­er, it looks to be a sen­si­tive and mov­ing study of how eat­ing dis­or­ders affect not just the indi­vid­ual but also the peo­ple around them. We can’t wait to see it, and to find out what Bry­don has planned next.

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