Photo Credit: © Orlando / Blinder Films Limited 2017
Vita & Virginia is the true story of the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), and the enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville West (Gemma Arterton). The film tells the story of the birth of the novel their intoxicating encounters inspired; Woolf’s bold experiment in art and androgyny, ‘Orlando’.
Chanya Button directs from a script she co-wrote with Dame Eileen Atkins. The films also stars Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones and Peter Ferdinando and is produced by Evangelo Kioussis for Mirror Productions and Katie Holly for Blinder Films. Executive producers are Simon Baxter, Christopher Figg, Nicolas Sampson, Norman Merry, Dave Bishop and Gemma Arterton. Protagonist Pictures are handling International sales and Thunderbird Releasing will release the film in the UK.