1-Hour Dramatic Spy Thriller
LOGLINE: Spanning across decades and oceans, the audacious true story of pioneering secret agent Virginia Hall, a disabled American woman recruited by the British to operate covertly in Nazi-occupied France. Though she remains largely invisible in history, her bold feats see her labelled as the Allies’ “most dangerous spy” and hunted by the Gestapo.
PERSONA is a re-imagination of a hidden figure in our history. An original story of spycraft, it flips today’s espionage narrative on its head while honouring the ingenuity and indomitable spirit of VIRGINIA HALL — a real-life disabled spy who shaped contemporary secret warfare.
Based around the quiet moments in micro-spycraft that existed in this pioneering period of espionage as warfare, PERSONA showcases a theatres of conflict atypical to what we usually see depicted on-screen. This is a world of camaraderie, romance, greed, jealousy, grudges and betrayal populated with flesh-and-blood heroes and villains who authentically (and, at times, uncomfortably) speak to truths of our humanity — and our inhumanity.
