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Deborah Haywood. Director: Pin Cushion. Following her first short Deborah was selected for Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow, 2007. She is BIFA nominated and has won several awards including Best Short at Soho Rushes Short Film Festival with her short film Sis.
- Director, Writer, Art Department
- Deborah Haywood
- Sympathetic and Credibly Drawn
- Hurt and Disappointment
- More Colourful Than Life
- Nightmare Horror
Haywood describes Pin Cushionas “a dark fairy tale about an oddball mother and daughter who move to a new town, and what effect that has on their co-dependant relationship”, but, whilst succinct, that summary leaves an awful lot out. Yes, it’s a fairy tale of sorts, but also a coming-of-age story, a meditation on isolation, scuppered hopes, trying ...
Newmark’s debut as daughter Iona is memorable and striking, her red hair and sheer wide-eyed “otherness” reminiscent of Sissy Spacek, but it’s Scanlan who steals the show. The film opens optimistically enough with Iona and eccentric Lyn moving to a new town, but it isn’t long before the latter – who has a spinal deformity – becomes the victim of ab...
Haywood’s work so far – this debut feature and five excellent short films – all focus to a greater or lesser extent on characters who are either children or teenagers (Pin Cushion’s Lyn is also somewhat child-like). The shorts include the whimsical Sis (2011), about two very young girls who stumble into the home of an alleged paedophile, and Tender...
Haywood has a couple of ideas bubbling away for her next project, including a musical take on material she started to explore in Sis. However, she seems most excited about the possibility of making a “nightmare horror”. “I had post-natal depression and this awful recurring dream that there was this huge owl on my shoulders. It was so heavy, and I w...
Jan 24, 2018 · Writer-director Deborah Haywood announces herself as a striking new voice in British cinema with her feature directorial debut Pin Cushion.
Jul 19, 2018 · For her first feature, “Pin Cushion,” the British director Deborah Haywood digs into her own teenage memories and unearths something eccentric, tragic and utterly unclassifiable.
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Jul 13, 2018 · Starring Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan and Chanel Cresswell, Deborah Haywood’s new movie features a mother and daughter who turn to fantasy and lies after things do not go well for them in a new...
Deborah Haywood on the set of Pin Cushion. Haywood, who experienced bullying in school, remembers certain behaviours with a terrifying clarity, and fed these into her script. “When people started reading it and talking about it, my first instinct was to pretend that it wasn’t personal.
Jul 13, 2018 · The director of acclaimed new film Pin Cushion has told how she drew on her experience of being bullied into her big-screen feature debut.
