Athina Rachel Tsangari is set to work on another small screen project. The award-winning director has signed on to direct BBC TV series “Trigonometry” for Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s London-based House Productions, ScreenDaily confirms. The Greek filmmaker’s last feature, “Chevalier,” a comic portrait of toxic masculinity, premiered at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival.
Described as a relationship comedy-drama following a couple who get a roommate to help cover their rent, “Trigonometry’s” first five episodes will be directed by Tsangari. Effie Woods and Duncan Macmillan are penning the scripts.
”[Athina] brings with her a unique cinematic vision which we believe will marry brilliantly with Duncan and Effie’s bold and original scripts,” said Ross and Howell.
Tsangari added, “‘Trigonometry’ is a rare, invigorating script and it’s been a pleasure delving into its unruly humanity with Duncan and Effie, Tessa and Juliette, and their fantastic team merging television with cinema, drama with screwball comedy.”
“I don’t make movies for everyone,” Tsangari has said. “With every movie, I try to make something different so that I challenge myself with a new type of language through my own filter and my own lens.” She continued, “I don’t go to work every day thinking I’m a ‘female filmmaker.’ If I decide to make a film in Hollywood, we’ll see. I keep hearing about glass ceilings and glass floors and glass walls, so I’ll see.”
Tsangari made her feature directorial debut with 2010’s “Attenberg.” “Trigonometry” doesn’t mark her first foray into TV: She directed two episodes of “Borgia,” a drama about the Borgia family set during the Renaissance, in 2014.
