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British Independent Film Awards: ‘Kneecap’, ‘Hoard’ & ‘Last Swim’ Among Titles On New Talent Longlists
J.Martin29 min ago
Subversive Irish breakout pic Kneecap and Sasha Nathwani's gentle yet ambitious debut Last Swim are among the titles that have nabbed mentions on the new talent longlists at this year's British Independent Film Awards . Both Kneecap and Last Swim pop up on the Douglas Hickox Best Debut Director Award longlist. Other nominees include Hoard, directed by Luna Carmoon, and Karan Kandhari's Sister Midnight, which debuted at this year's Cannes Film Festival. All four films also feature on the best screenplay longlist alongside Christopher Andrews's Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. Other pics on the screenplay longlist include The Ceremony by Jack King and Jed Hart's Restless. Overall, the longlists include 31 British features, with 20 fiction and 11 documentary features across four debut filmmaking categories. Within that, there are 13 first-time fiction feature directors, 16 first-time feature documentary directors, 11 first-time writers, and 19 breakthrough producers. The final five nominees in all categories will be announced on Tuesday 5 November. Winners will be revealed at the BIFA awards ceremony on Sunday 8 December, which this year returns to the Roundhouse in Camden. Check out the longlists below. The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) sponsored by BBC Film Amrou Al-Kadhi – Layla Christopher Andrews – Bring Them Down Luna Carmoon – Hoard Lucy Cohen – Edge of Summer James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns [also directed by Sally El Hosaini] Stuart Gatt – Catching Dust Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight Jack King – The Ceremony Rob Morgan – Stopmotion Sasha Nathwani – Last Swim Rich Peppiatt – Kneecap Daina O Pusić – Tuesday Joshua Trigg – Satu – Year of the RabbitBest Debut Screenwriter sponsored by Film4 Christopher Andrews – Bring Them Down Luna Carmoon – Hoard James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns Jed Hart – Restless Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight Jack King – The Ceremony Rich Peppiatt – Kneecap Daina O Pusić – Tuesday Sandhya Suri – Santosh Mrs & Mr Thomas – The Assessment [also written by John Donnelly]Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary David Allen – Wilding Georgia Bradburn, Lucy Walker, Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown Ahern, Robin Elliot Knowles – The Stimming Pool [also directed by Steven Eastwood] Duncan Cowles – Silent Men Carla J Easton, Blair Young – Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane – Grand Theft Hamlet Manon Ouimet, Jacob Perlmutter – Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other Rachel Ramsay – Copa 71 [also directed by James Erskine] Clair Titley – The Contestant Franc Vissers – I'm Still HereBreakthrough Producer sponsored by Pinewood & Shepperton Studios Beth Allan – Tummy Monster Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer – The Ceremony Mark David – Catching Dust [also produced by Stuart Gatt, John Katz, Edward R Pressman] Balthazar de Ganay, James Bowsher – Santosh [also produced by Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex] Robert Ford – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story [also produced by also produced by Ian Bonhôte, Lizzie Gillett] Helen Gladders – Tuesday [also produced by Ivana MacKinnon, Oliver Roskill] Savannah James-Bayly – Layla Virginia Gilbert, Barry Castagnola – Reawakening John McKay – Falling Into Place [also produced by Yvonne Wellie, Milena Klemke, Jakob Weydeman, Jonas Weydemann] Nisha Mullea – Last Swim [also produced by Helen Simmons, Campbell Beaton, Bert Hamelinck, James Isilay, Sorcha Shepherd] Jacob Swan Hyam – Bring Them Down [also produced by Julianne Ford, Ivana MacKinnon, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ruth Treacey, Cassandre Warnauts] Ben Toye – Treading Water Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura – Witches [also produced by Manon Ardisson] Chloe White – The Stimming Pool [also produced by Steven Eastwood] Rebecca Wolff – Grand Theft Hamlet [also produced by Julia Ton]
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