Cannes 2012: Harry Potter's Ginny Weasley directs budget film Dungeness and Romney Marsh in Kent were the locations, and local businesses were among those invited to pledge money for the project. A donation of £25 was rewarded with a mention in the credits, £50 earned a mention and a DVD of the film, while anyone giving £1,000 also received a poster, screening invitation and opportunity to have a meal with the crew. Unlike most other graduates on her course, Wright was able to cast a well-known actor. She called on her Harry Potter co-star, David Thewlis, to appear in the film as a lonely widower who strikes up a sweet friendship with a 10-year-old girl called Thea. Young actress Emily Dunham plays Thea, who lives in a bleak town with her troubled mother and sets off for the coast one day. Wright explained: "It's a journey of enlightenment - a realisation that her life doesn't end at the end of her street, it's a whole open world." Explaining why she chose Dungeness and Romney Marsh as her location, Wright said: "It's a very unique area and an amazing stretch of land. Romney Marsh is an area where I spent a lot of time when I was a child. Growing up in a city such as London, it's so confined sometimes that as a child there is no feeling of a horizon, there's nothing beyond what you know. So for me I was so lucky to have that experience of spending a lot of time in open spaces such as Romney Marsh that I was able to gain that feeling of beyond. As a young child I was obsessed with horizons. Separate We Come, Separate We Go is showing in the Short Film Corner at Cannes. Wright has two acting roles in the pipeline: a British period drama, In Want of a Wife, and a US independent film, Shakespeare's Daughter. She told Screen magazine that she is moving on from the wizarding franchise that made her name. "All of us had our 10 years on Harry Potter, it was an incredible experience, but I'm now very excited about the next chapter," she said.