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Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson may once again play human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, according to Screen Daily. Nearly twenty years ago, Thompson played Peirce in Jim Sheridan's Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father (1993, right), in which she defended Daniel Day-Lewis and several others accused of being Ira terrorists. For her efforts — the accused are eventually released — Thompson earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nod. Despite sharing several elements with Sheridan's movie, this new project is not called In the Name of the Father 2 (or In the Name of the Mother, for that matter). Described as a romantic thriller, The Secret Evidence tells the story of "a young British couple mistakenly caught up in the war on terror who turn to Thompson’s character to get one of them out of prison. However, in fighting for her boyfriend’s freedom, the film’s young female lead finds...

It.s not exactly a sequel to In the Name of the Father, but Emma Thompson appears ready to reprise the role of attorney Gareth Peirce, who defended Daniel Day-Lewis. imprisoned character in Jim Sheridan.s Ira drama. Screen Daily says Thompson is attached to play Peirce in The Secret Evidence, a courtroom thriller that will be produced by J. Todd Harris (The Kids are All Right). The script finds Peirce approached by a young British couple for help after one of them ends up behind bars as part of England's fight against international terrorism. The report says that as the young girl fights for her boyfriend.s freedom, she finds herself under attack from her own country.s secret service agents. As of right now, Nicholas Racz (The Burial Society) is attached to direct the picture, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Fall 2012 so long as financing can...

Yes, Jim Sheridan‘s 1993 collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis is getting that rare treatment. Neither are involved, sadly, but Emma Thompson will reprise her role of lawyer Gareth Peirce — who, it should be said, happens to be a real person — for a new thriller, The Secret Evidence. ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist) reports that Nicholas Racz (The Burial Society) will direct the film, which he’s in the midst of co-writing with Cerie Bullivant. And, while the latter’s no hotshot screenwriter, he himself was detained and put under house arrest for two years on terrorism charges that were never actually proven. His lawyer throughout that ordeal? You can probably figure it out.

Evidence will examine a similar issue, being the story of “a young British couple mistakenly caught up in the war on terror who turn to [Peirce] to get one of them out of prison.” But it gets a little more complicated when the girl — who,...

Twenty years later, Emma Thompson is reprising a role albeit in a quite different project. Thompson is attached to play a character based on renowned human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce in the upcoming thriller "The Secret Evidence" at 2B Pictures and South Creek Pictures reports Screen Daily.

The Middle East and London-set drama follows a young British couple mistakenly caught up in the war on terror who turn to Thompson’s character to get one of them out of prison. However, in fighting for her boyfriend’s freedom, the young woman finds herself and her family subject to attack from the UK Government’s secret service.

Thompson scored an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Guildford Four defence lawyer Peirce in Jim Sheridan’s acclaimed 1993 drama "In the Name of the Father".

Nicholas Racz ("The Burial Society") will direct and has co-written the script with Cerie Bullivant. The $6-8 million...

Back in 1993, Emma Thompson was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of the human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in Jim Sheridan’s “In the Name of the Father,” ultimately losing out (famously) to an 11-year-old Anna Paquin for “The Piano.” Nearly two decades later, Emma Thompson will once again portray the lawyer who famously turned down a Cbe, and has worked alongside clients ranging from the family of Jean Charles de Menezes to the Birmingham Six and Julian Assange. Thompson will revisit the character in the international thriller, “The Secret Evidence.”

The film will focus on a young British couple who are mistakenly caught up in the war on terror and turn to Peirce to help get them out of prison. But in the fight for their freedom, the characters find themselves and their families a target of the U.K. government’s secret service. Nicholas Racz...

TEL AVIV, Israel -- The first edition of Jewish Eye: World Jewish Film Festival opens Oct. 28 with a screening of Nicholas Racz's black comedy Burial Society (Canada). The six-day event, held at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque in cooperation with the Jerusalem-based Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, will feature 70 films -- 60 in competition -- from 17 countries. The festival, described by organizers as the first of its kind in Israel and the Jewish world, will showcase the work of both Jewish and non-Jewish filmmakers drawn from the 100-plus Jewish film festivals held annually worldwide and will include features, documentaries, television dramas and series, and animation. Three competitive categories, which include features, documentaries and shorts, will share prize money of $6,000, said artistic director Gadi Castel. The event will screen the world premier of documentary Herzl, the first-ever Israel-Hungary co-production. Director Eva Pataki is expected to be on hand. Other international guests include Swiss director Dani Levy with Zucker (Germany) and Yves Boisset with The Dreyfus Affair (France). The festival, said to be hosting the world's largest collection of Jewish-related films, is contributing a three-part retrospective tracing the histories of both Zionism and local filmmaking, a package containing previously unseen material that is expected to screen at international and Jewish film festivals, said director Hillel Tryster.

VANCOUVER -- Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine took the Air Canada People's Choice Award at the 21st Vancouver International Film Festival, which closed Friday night. An estimated 150,000 people attended the 16-day festival, a new record. This year, the festival added new screening rooms and featured a more playful "Hollywood/Bollywood" theme than the political themes of recent years. Other winners included Andrew Cheng's Shanghai Panic (Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema), Lee Chang-Dong's Oasis Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award) and Peter Mettler's Gambling, Gods and L.S.D. (National Film Board Best Documentary). Director Jane McGregor won the Women in Film and Video Artistic Merit Award for her films Flowers & Garnet and Bitten. The Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film was shared by two films, Deborah Day's Expecting and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City, by Nettie Wild. The Telefilm Canada awards for Best Emerging Western Canadian Director were won by Keith Behrman (feature-length) and Michelle Porter (short). The new Citytv Western Canadian Screenwriter Award went to Nicholas Racz for The Burial Society. The awards were presented before a gala screening of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which closed the festival.