Subversive Irish breakout pic Kneecap and Sasha Nathwani’s light but formidable debut Final Swim are among the many titles which have nabbed mentions on the brand new expertise longlists at this yr’s British Unbiased Movie Awards.
Each Kneecap and Final Swim pop up on the Douglas Hickox Finest Debut Director Award longlist. Different nominees embrace Hoard, directed by Luna Carmoon, and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight, which debuted at this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition.
All 4 movies additionally function on the perfect screenplay longlist alongside Christopher Andrews’s Convey Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. Different pics on the screenplay longlist embrace The Ceremony by Jack King and Jed Hart’s Stressed.
Total, the longlists embrace 31 British options, with 20 fiction and 11 documentary options throughout 4 debut filmmaking classes. Inside that, there are 13 first-time fiction function administrators, 16 first-time function documentary administrators, 11 first-time writers, and 19 breakthrough producers.
The ultimate 5 nominees in all classes might be introduced on Tuesday 5 November. Winners might be revealed on the BIFA awards ceremony on Sunday 8 December, which this yr returns to the Roundhouse in Camden.
Try the longlists under.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Finest Debut Director) sponsored by BBC Movie
Amrou Al-Kadhi – Layla
Christopher Andrews – Convey Them Down
Luna Carmoon – Hoard
Lucy Cohen – Fringe of Summer season
James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns [also directed by Sally El Hosaini]
Stuart Gatt – Catching Mud
Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight
Jack King – The Ceremony
Rob Morgan – Stopmotion
Sasha Nathwani – Final Swim
Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
Daina O Pusić – Tuesday
Joshua Trigg – Satu – Yr of the Rabbit
Finest Debut Screenwriter sponsored by Film4
Christopher Andrews – Convey Them Down
Luna Carmoon – Hoard
James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns
Jed Hart – Stressed
Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight
Jack King – The Ceremony
Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
Daina O Pusić – Tuesday
Sandhya Suri – Santosh
Mrs & Mr Thomas – The Evaluation [also written by John Donnelly]
Finest Debut Director – Characteristic 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 Males
Carla J Easton, Blair Younger – Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Woman Bands
Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane – Grand Theft Hamlet
Manon Ouimet, Jacob Perlmutter – Two Strangers Attempting To not Kill Every Different
Rachel Ramsay – Copa 71 [also directed by James Erskine]
Clair Titley – The Contestant
Franc Vissers – I’m Nonetheless Right here
Breakthrough Producer sponsored by Pinewood & Shepperton Studios
Beth Allan – Tummy Monster
Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer – The Ceremony
Mark David – Catching Mud [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 – Tremendous/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 – Final Swim [also produced by Helen Simmons, Campbell Beaton, Bert Hamelinck, James Isilay, Sorcha Shepherd]
Jacob Swan Hyam – Convey 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]
