Filmmakers from Carry Them Down, The Ceremony and Tuesday characteristic prominently on the filmmaker new expertise longlists for the 2024 British Unbiased Movie Awards (Bifas).
Carry Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for finest debut director and the perfect debut screenwriter award, whereas the movie’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.
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The Ceremony repeats that trio for writer-director Jack King and producers Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer; as does Tuesday for writer-director Daina O Pusic and producer Helen Gladders.
4 filmmaker new expertise longlists have been unveiled in the present day – the three aforementioned lists and the perfect debut director – characteristic documentary listing.
Ten movies have been chosen on two of the 4 lists, together with Luna Carmoon’s Hoard, with Carmoon listed for debut director and screenwriter; Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, with Suri chosen in screenwriter and Balthazar de Ganay and James Bowsher chosen in breakthrough producer; and Grand Theft Hamlet, with Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane chosen within the characteristic documentary director part and Rebecca Wolff in breakthrough producer.
With yesterday’s breakthrough efficiency longlist that includes all three predominant actors, Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap now has essentially the most longlist spots with 5, together with director and screenwriter for Peppiatt in the present day.
Andrews, Gladders, Carmoon, Suri and Bowsher have all beforehand been named Display screen Stars of Tomorrow, as has Layla’s Amrou Al-Kadhi, longlisted for debut director.
The filmmaker new expertise longlists embody 31 options, comprised of 20 fiction and 11 documentary titles.
The ultimate 5 nominees in all classes will likely be introduced on Tuesday, November 5, with the winners revealed on the 27th Bifa ceremony on Sunday, December 8 on the Camden Roundhouse venue.
Bifa 2024 Filmmaker New Expertise longlists
The Douglas Hickox Award for Finest Debut Director
Amrou Al-Kadhi – Layla
Christopher Andrews – Carry 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
Christopher Andrews – Carry 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 Lady 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
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 Ian Bonhote, 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 – Carry 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]