When Love Comes

Director Garth Maxwell and long-time writing partner Rex Pilgrim began developing When Love Comes four years before making the film, following their screenplay collaboration on the highly regarded feature Jack Be Nimble which Maxwell also directed.

Television deemed it a little risque, but Maxwell and Pilgrim found the characters too compelling to let go, so decided to develop a feature script. 

The pivotal character of Katie Keen was inspired by a woman Maxwell knew who’d had a number one hit at just fifteen years old. He was fascinated by the idea of someone who had experienced celebrity at an early age but has seen that moment pass; in the film, Katie is confronted by the fact that her dreams are out of sync with her reality.