
COCOA TRUELOVE FILMS
Bridal Party Team

Production Team - ROLES OFFERED (T.B.C.)
The project is in development and the following have been consulted but not signed up yet.
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Executive Producers / Distributors (U.S.A.) - TBC
Charles Fries, legendary Friesfilms (‘Call of the Wild’) - U.S.A
Charles Wesley ('The Movers'‘Run the Race''Let there be light’) - Alabama Studio owner - U.S.A..
Producers & Writers
Original Author (story): F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 – 1940, ('The Gt. Gatsby', 'Tender is the Night').
Writer-Producer-Creator (script): Christine W.F. Chan (BFI / Bafta trained by A. Minghella 'The English Patient').
Script consultant & A.D.(New York): John Alexander Kontoyannis (trained at Scott Rudin Productions)
Script has been completed and read by team. Website is designed by Christine, creator-owner of this project.
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Paris Co-Producers: Raphaël Benoliel (TBC)
('Emily in Paris','Rebecca,' 'Mission Impossible','Les Miserables', 'The 100 foot journey' &'Mamma Mia II').
Paris Consulting Producer: Philippe Carcassonne (‘Coco Before Chanel’ and 'The Father.')
Director -To Be Confirmed (TBC)
Director Feature: Lasse Hallstrom ('Chocolat', 'Safe Haven,',A Dog's Purpose,' The 100 foot journey' ABBA videos).
Director of Short: Marion Milne ('Charles: Fifty Years a Prince (2019) (Now a King), 'Story of Prince' (singer, 2017), 'Ten Days to D-Day (2004) (Emmy) | 'The Queen' (2009), 'Les Temps Changent' (Changing Climates, Changing Times).
U.K.Creative Team (special thanks to friends)
Director of Photography: John Daly BAFTA winner for cinematography (Jane Austen's 'Persuasion').
Artistic Director: Belle Mundi ('The Ghost Writer' (2022) 'Robin Hood' , 'Arthur & Merlin', 'Gt Gatsby (theatre)').
UK Production Manager: Peter Fraser ('The Journey', 'The Take Down','Royals: Keeping the Crown')
Fashion Consultant: Matthew John ('Hedda Gabler' and 'Sinner and Saint')
Fashion Producer:: John Plas (contacts in fashion world including Gucci & Versace').
VFX Producer: Carl Grinter ('Les Miserables','Bohemian Rhapsody', 'King Arthur', 'Unknown').
VFX Editor: Michael J. Wechsler (‘Ghost in the Shell’, (2017), ‘Guardians of the Galaxy (2023)’. ‘Bridge of Spies (2015)’ and ‘Safe Haven’ (1997).
Positioning & Comparable Films
'The Bridal Party' is a classic, romantic drama set in the jazz age of 1930's. Written by the much acclaimed celebrity writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, it has mainstream marketability and is comparable to Fitzgerald movies like 'Tender is the Night', 'The Last Tycoon', and of course, 'The Great Gatsby', starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in 1974, and Leonado di Caprio and Carey Mulligan in 2013. Filled with nostalgic blues and cafe jazz tunes, it will also feature romantic love songs of that era (Gershwin and Cole Porter). Based on a real wedding in Paris 1930 held by his friend Powell Fowler, this is an 'American in Paris' story with a huge audience in U.S.A., France and will attract worldwide fans of Scott Fitzgerald. 'Gatsby' followers would love this movie too.


