Teenage Harrogate director's film goes worldwide during lockdown

A Harrogate based young film director’s film about a futuristic lockdown is to be screened internationally.
Hit movie - Incredible Harrogate aspiring film director, Ava Bounds.Hit movie - Incredible Harrogate aspiring film director, Ava Bounds.
Hit movie - Incredible Harrogate aspiring film director, Ava Bounds.

At only 13, aspiring film director, Ava Bounds decided last summer to make a film about a ‘lockdown’ of the future.

Little did she know that this situation set in a future world where global warming has happened would become a reality.

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She is also surprised that her film would be chosen to be screened in worldwide film festivals.

The Escort is, in fact, Ava's fourth short film, but the first to be submitted to global film festivals.

Ava began her creative arts interest on the West End Stage, London at the age of 11 with Oscar=-winning director Sam Mendes in smash hit play, The Ferryman.

Brought up on The Twilight Zone and the movies of Stanley Kubrick, she's been hailed already as a young director with a fine mind, a creative soul and weird ideas.

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Ava said: “I wanted to make a film about our planet and what our future could become. Global warming and AI robots are real, but behind the warnings are people with needs and wishes and crucially, a story to tell”.

The tag-line of The Escort reads “In a landscape where global warming is having severe detrimental effects around the world, a man is returning to his daughter with her medicine undetected until he meets a companion on his journey with disastrous consequences”.

Ava’s film is to be screened at Fastfilm Festival in Ireland and is also a finalist at the Barnes Film Festival which will be shown online between June 19-23.

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