Overview

• Emma Thompson was honored with the Leopard Club Award at Locarno and led the world premiere of her new film during a ceremony on Piazza Grande.
• She revealed the film’s month-long cold-weather and freediving training in Finland, joking that “the making of this movie was mostly about gloves.”
• In Dead of Winter, Thompson plays a widowed fisherwoman who disrupts the abduction of a teenage girl in Minnesota’s snowbound wilderness.
• Thompson also serves as executive producer, working with director Brian Kirk and screenwriters Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb.
• Following its festival debut, the film is preparing for a broader international release.