Adelaide’s Tilda Cobham-Hervey to make feature film directorial debut, with Hollywood star partner Dev Patel one of the producers
The Adelaide actor is stepping behind the camera for the first time with her own feature film influenced by her late mother Roz – and with a little help from her Hollywood star partner.
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Tilda Cobham-Hervey will make her directorial debut with a South Australian-made feature film influenced by her late mother Roz.
The Adelaide actor will also star in the drama, It’s All Going Very Well No Problems At All, which will be shot around her hometown later this year.
Cobham-Hervey, 30, wrote the “extremely personal film” as Roz, a beloved Adelaide arts identity, battled motor neurone disease. She used the state’s assisted dying laws to end her life in November.
Cobham-Hervey, whose partner, Hollywood superstar Dev Patel, is one of the film’s producers, said she began working on the project about five years ago.
“I started to question my place in the world and what I wanted to do with my life,” she said.
“Then over time it shifted as I grew up. My mum was diagnosed with MND two years ago and through that process I had to think in a very different way about mortality.
“She taught me so much in those years about purpose and your place in the world and I think a lot of that has led into the script.”
The movie follows Audrey, a young artist lost and teetering on the verge of collapse, who finds solace through her friendship with Harold, one of the elderly residents of the aged-care home where she works.
Cobham-Hervey said Patel had been a great support as she steps behind the camera for the first time. The Lion star wrote, directed and starred in his own feature film, Monkey Man, last year.
“We’re so excited by making film so it inevitably becomes a conversation around the kitchen table,” she said. “He’s such a brave and bold filmmaker and I’ve learned a lot from watching his way of working.”
Another of the movie’s producers, Liam Heyen, from Mad Ones Films, said he read Cobham-Hervey’s script last year and thought it was “magnificent”.
“It just captures something about being a younger person in Australia … in terms of purpose and how we spend our lives and what that means,” he said.
“It really spoke to me on an emotional level.”
Cobham-Hervey said it was special to be making a film “set in your hometown about your hometown”.
“Adelaide has such an extraordinary creative community here. A big part of this film is celebrating that,” she said.
It’s All Going Very Well No Problems At All is funded by Screen Australia and S’ya Concept, in association with the SA Film Corporation and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.
SAFC chief executive Kate Croser described Cobham-Hervey as “one of South Australia’s brightest rising screen talents”.
“We are thrilled to be supporting Tilda’s feature writing and directing debut with this film, which the SAFC has backed from its early stages with both script development funding and production funding,” she said.
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