![]() It is incredibly refreshing that, like the book, you tell the Blooms’ story in an authentic way and really communicate to an audience Sam’s journey of acceptance to living with disability. “Naomi Watts Shines in One of the Most Heartwarming Movies of the Year” Collider The story kind of fell into the location. ![]() It was a very suitable location and we didn’t really make many compromises. You can feel it in the house, all the good stuff and the bad stuff that had happened, and it worked. ![]() If the walls could talk, they would tell the story. For me, there was just something about setting our story within the walls. In this way, there was an important narrative role to the house being there. It’s all still out there – but she couldn’t connect. Sam had such an active lifestyle before the accident and now she was trapped. First and foremost, from a physical point of view, the roof plays an important part of the storytelling. It’s not like we’re making a documentary. We are telling a true story but of course it’s an adaptation, so everything is changed. How did this change the dynamic in your directing and the acting for the cast themselves? The film was shot inside the Blooms’ actual home in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Screen NSW spoke to director Glendyn Ivin about the making of Penguin Bloom, filmed in New South Wales, including the importance of representing people with a disability on screen. Naomi Watts stars in the true story of Sam Bloom, a young mother whose world is shattered after a near-fatal accident leaves her unable to walk. As Sam, her husband Cam (Lincoln), their three young boys and her mother (Weaver) struggle to adjust to their new situation, an unlikely ally enters their world in the form of an injured baby magpie named Penguin. The bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the family’s life and ignites a healing journey for Sam Bloom. After its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2020, the Australian film adaptation of inspiring international bestseller Penguin Bloom from director Glendyn Ivin and starring Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, is in Australian cinemas now and on Netflix internationally.
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