Feature Film in Development
"Before she could turn to Him, she had to save herself."
Before she was Mary Magdalene, she was a nameless prostitute in a first-century brothel — until a mysterious woman arrived and began quietly offering her a freedom that would change everything she ever knew.
Raise the Red Lantern meets The Zone of Interest.
Magdala, Galilee. Approximately 30 CE. A prosperous Jewish town on the Sea of Galilee — fishermen, merchants, tax collectors, ritual baths, basalt streets, and a harbor that smells of salt and brine. And one building the town pretends does not exist. MAGDALA is a single-location drama set almost entirely inside it.
Mary has survived since childhood by becoming what the system rewards — compliant, devoted to the Owner who claims to protect her. Her survival strategy is her identity. Then Keturah arrives: small, unbreakable, literate, subversive. She does not claim authority; she distributes it. She gives Mary back her name. She teaches her to read. What begins as a quiet kindness becomes the most dangerous thing in the building — the knowledge that she is worth more than the walls around her.
Raise the Red Lantern meets The Zone of Interest.
A formally bold, visually dynamic single-location drama about women navigating survival inside a system designed to erase them. Confined-space cinema — Caravaggio light and pressure-cooker tension — opening, at the last, onto wide-open sky. Beauty held in tension with horror, and conviction that earns itself rather than asking to be believed.
Conclave
Prestige conviction drama
The Zone of Interest
Formal restraint, moral weight
Room
Confined-space intimacy
Raise the Red Lantern
Beauty in tension with horror
Every generation discovers that the systems it inherited were built on the erasure of the people inside them. MAGDALA is a film for an audience exhausted by cynicism and hungry for a story that earns its conviction. Not sentimentality. Not rescue. Not faith as comfort — faith as the hardest thing a person can do: believing you matter when everything around you says you do not.
Writer · Director
A filmmaker with nearly three decades in film and television, Kirk wrote the MAGDALA novella and will write and direct the film.
Producer · Seven Circles Creative
Founder of Seven Circles Creative, producing MAGDALA and shepherding it from page to screen.
Producer
Producer on MAGDALA, supporting the film’s development and path to production alongside Seven Circles Creative.
Seven Circles Creative is assembling the financing and talent to bring MAGDALA to the screen. Authorized partners can access the full pitch deck and the complete novella in our confidential data room.