Join the writer/director of SUMMERLAND, Jessica Swale, in conversation with lead actors Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, moderated by journalist Rebecca Sun. The film follows a reclusive writer resigned to a solitary life, until she’s called upon to adopt a young London evacuee during World War II. This video is courtesy of Women in Film's Laptop Cinema Club.
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