Sundance Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Extra Geography’ By ‘One Day’ Director Molly Manners: First Footage

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first clip for Sundance debut drama Extra Geography, which heralds from One Day director Molly Manners.

Set in an English girls’ boarding school, the film charts the story of two teenage best friends who grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, to fall in love.

Produced by Sarah Brocklehurst (The Outrun) of Brock Media and written by WGA–winning playwright and TV writer Miriam Battye (Succession), the film is funded by Film4 and the BFI. It gets its world premiere this week in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Adapted from the short story by author Rose Tremain, the film stars emerging talents Marni Duggan and Galaxie Clear, alongside Alice Englert (The Power of the Dog). HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales.

Manners is best known for directing four eps of Netflix series One Day, for which she received two BAFTA nominations, including Best Director, and won the RTS Best Director award. She previously directed the second series of comedy-drama In My Skin (BBC3/Hulu), winning a BAFTA for Best Drama Series.

Executive producers on the film include Farhana Bhula for Film4, Louise Ortega for the BFI, Caroline Cooper Charles for Screen Yorkshire, Philip Burgin, Benji Strange and Tom Harberd for Foundry Media, and Marlon Vogelgesang and Charles Dorfman for Media Finance Capital.