International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

This Blessed Plot (This Blessed Plot)

Marc Isaacs

This Blessed Plot

When Lori, a young Chinese filmmaker, arrives in the small English village of Thaxted looking for her next film, she discovers it’s a place where the dead surround the living and the border between the two is easily crossed. Her landlady Maggie introduces her to the village church and Lori becomes fascinated with long dead Socialist Vicar, Conrad Noel, who speaks to her from beyond the grave.  And he’s not the only one. The forces of past and present, light and dark, play out and Lori and her film characters are forced to confront their haunted lives. This Blessed Plot is a tale of love, loss and betrayal where experimental hybrid filmmaking and archive breaks down the borders between the past and present and documentary and fiction, remaining outside conventional industrial film production structures.

UK 2023, '75

DIRECTOR: Marc Isaacs

SCENARIO: Adam Ganz

CAMERA: Marc Isaacs, Florence Browne

MONTAGE: Marc Isaacs, David Charap

MUSIC: TBC

PRODUCERS: Lydia Kivinen

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Doclisboa (2023)
IDFA (2023)

Marc Isaacs

Marc Isaacs

Marc Isaacs is a director and cinematographer, known for The Filmmaker's House (2020), Men of the City (2009) and All White in Barking (2007). He has directed more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2006, he had a retrospective at the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies. In 2008, Marc Isaacs received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London for his documentary work. He is a visiting professor at the London Film School, the National Film and Television School and the Royal Holloway University.

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