Number 9’s Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley on ‘The Salt Path’, ‘The Assessment’ and future projects

UK producer pair Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films have launched two features – The Salt Path and The Assessment – at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year as special presentations.

Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a real-life couple who trekked the UK’s 630-mile, shoreline-hugging South West Coast Path from Dorset to Somerset after losing their house and receiving life-threatening medical news.

In Fleur Fortuné’s UK-US-Germany co-production The Assessment, Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen go head-to-head as the former assesses the latter’s eligibility to bear a child in a world ravaged by climate change and low on resources.