Guy Pearce, Raffey Cassidy, Andrea Riseborough & Alessandro Nivola ‘High End’ First Looks Unveiled As Production Nears Wrap In Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Rising UK star Raffey Cassidy (Killing of a Sacred Deer) has been reunited on set with The Brutalist co-cast members Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience) and Oscar and Bafta nominee Guy Pearce (Memento) this past month for the shoot of Antonia Campbell-Hughes‘ thriller High End.
Beta Cinema has unveiled first stills for the upcoming film, which also features Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) in the cast, as the production approaches its final days of principal photography in Dublin, Ireland.
First announced by Deadline in early 2025 under the title of Diamond Shitterthe drama is written and directed by actor and director Campbell-Hughes and is her second feature after It Is In Us Allwhich won the Extraordinary Cinematic Vision Award at SXSW in 2022.
Principal photography began on March 8 in Geneva with Oscar-nominated Robbie Ryan (Bugonia) on board as cinematographer. It is due to wrap in Dublin on April 10.
Set within Geneva’s affluent ex-pat society, the story follows young intern Nollaig (Cassidy), whose impulsive theft — and bodily absorption — of her host family’s diamonds detonates a deeply buried fracture line within their glittering world. As the façade of privilege begins to crack, the film charts an unsettling psychological terrain.
The production also features the work of casting director Dixie Chassay (Dune: Part Two), costume designer Saffron Cullane (Queen at Sea), and hair & make-up designer Wakana Yoshihara (Spencer). and reunites Campbell-Hughes with It Is In Us All production designer John Leslie, composer Tom Furse and editor John Walters.
“Antonia Campbell-Hughes is a standout director with an incredible distinctive and fearless cinematic handwriting,” commented Tassilo Hallbauer, EVP of Sales & Acquisitions at Beta Cinema. “With an extraordinary cast and a strikingly original concept, High End will resonate strongly across international audiences. We are proud to support a project that is as daring as it is compelling.”
Alongside her work as a director, Campbell-Hughes is known for acting credits such as her
portrayal of Natascha Kampusch in the Sherry Hormann/Michael Ballhaus biopic 3096 Days (2013), Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009), The Other Side of Sleep (2011), the BAFTA-winning Kelly + Victor (2012), Netflix series Black Dovesand the title role in psychological thriller Cordelia (2019).
Multi-award-winning producers Rory Gilmartin (Christy) and Lee Magiday (The Favourite) lead the production, with Alan Maher (Everybody Digs Bill Evans) also producing. Co-producing are Max Karli and Pauline Gygax of Rita Productions (The Line). The film is produced with the support of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, BCP Asset Management, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture/FOC, Eurimages, RTS/SSR SRG, Cinéforom and Praesens Film.
It is produced by Cuala Films, in co-production with the UK’s Smoke Puppy and Geneva-based Rita Productions, in association with Sleeper Films, Carte Blanche, and Onsight. Executive Producers are Hallbauer for Beta, Greg Martin for Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Oisín O’Neill for BCP, Richard Fearn, Mickey Gooch Jr., Kyle Stroud for Carte Blanche, Tony Maher, Edmund Tuckett, Michael Wood, Nicolas Sampson and Arno Hazebroek.
The screenplay was developed with support from the BFI and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland.
Cassidy is represented by UTA, Conway van Gelder Grant, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Riseborough, by Independent Talent, CAA, and Untitled Entertainment; Nivola, by UTA, Tavistock Wood Management, Range Media Partners, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, LLP, and Pearce, by Independent Talent, CAA, Shanahan Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, LLP. Antonia Campbell-Hughes is represented by United Agents, Entertainment 360 and The Artists Partnership.
Beta Cinema is handling international sales, with UTA Independent Film Group co-representing North American rights.
