Actress Bonnie Wright, who played Harry Potter’s girlfriend Ginny Weasley, was on the red carpet at Cannes with her first film as a director.
Wright, 21, made Separate We Come, Separate We Go for £5,000 as the final work for her film production degree at Elephant and Castle’s London College of Communication.
The short film, which she also wrote, stars her fellow Harry Potter actor David Thewlis as a widower who develops a friendship with a 10-year-old girl, played by Emily Dunham. Wright admitted that the film challenged accepted advice to young people about “stranger danger”.
The story was inspired by one of the wildest parts of the Kent coast. “Dungeness is a place where I spent a lot of time. It gives the story atmosphere,” she said.
Wright has also found time to appear in one of a series of five short films about intimacy by London director David Allain which were on show in Cannes.
The shorts, titled Geography of the Hapless Heart, are set in five cities, including London. Allyson Paradis, the 28-year-old sister of Vanessa, will star in the final film, to be shot in Paris in August.
Wright’s next films as an actress will be US indie Shakespeare’s Daughter and 18th-century period piece In Want Of A Wife.
