Vindication Swim (2024)

Interesting facts

Vindication Swim is a 2024 biographical drama film about swimmer Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel. The film is written and directed by Elliott Hasler, starring Kirsten Callaghan in the lead role with John Locke playing her coach and Victoria Summer as a rival swimmer.

Production

It was announced in 2018 that Hasler was writing a screenplay based around Mercedes Gleitze's 1927 attempt to become the first British woman to swim the English Channel, and that he intended for this to be his next project following the completion of his first feature WWII: The Long Road Home. John Locke was cast as Gleitze's coach, Harold Best, and sat in on auditions for the role of Gleitze.

Filming began on 12 August 2019 for the swimming sequences in the English Channel off the coast of Newhaven. At the end of September, filming of on-land exteriors and interiors took place across Sussex, which was delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming locations include Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes, Hastings and Worthing. Additional scenes were also shot in Birmingham. Filming eventually wrapped in June 2021.

In November 2020, it was reported by Deadline that actress Victoria Summer had joined the production as Edith Gade, a rival swimmer who attempts to usurp Gleitze's record. In January 2022, Variety reported that actors Douglas Hodge and James Wilby had also joined the cast. The film is being scored by Daniel Clive McCallum.

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