Christine Langan explains how ‘Hot Milk’ became the first film from Bonnie Productions

Christine Langan is used to juggling sizeable teams and hectic slates, having been CEO of Steve Coogan’s UK outfit Baby Cow for four years and, prior to that, creative director at BBC Film for seven. At Bonnie Productions, which she set up in 2020, Langan is the sole employee. The first feature on her slate, Hot Milk, world premieres in Competition today (February 14) and is also the debut feature of She Said screenwriter-turned-director Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

A stripped-back approach to producing, however, has not meant a simpler life. “It’s been quite the journey, lots of ups and downs,” says Langan of Hot Milk. “It was sometimes darkly comic because it was so difficult.”