By Hanna Rantala

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut with “Goodbye June”, a holiday season-set drama about a family faced with loss coming together.

Winslet, who also stars in the film, directs from a screenplay by her son Joe Anders. The story was partly inspired by their personal experience of losing Winslet’s mother, Anders’ grandmother, to cancer in 2017.

“I just wanted to make a film that felt authentic and real,” said Winslet, premiering the movie with Anders and the cast in London on Wednesday.

“I also didn’t want to make a story that was about someone who dies because it’s really not. It’s actually about the life that is given to the people who are left behind.”

Winslet said she wanted to set the movie in Britain’s National He

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