“Cannon and Morley Productions was founded by Manchester-born writer/director Carol Morley and US-born producer Cairo Cannon to make Morley’s documentary confessional The Alcohol Years (2000). It has gone on to produce all of her work, including documentary Dreams Of A Life and fiction feature The Falling, starring Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh. The pair’s Out Of Blue, adapted from the Martin Amis novel Night Train, received a Toronto premiere. Morley was the recipient of the 2015 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship in partnership with the BFI and Film4, which resulted in Morley’s next feature project: Typist Artist Pirate King, based on the life of archivist artist Audrey Amiss.”

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