The British Unbiased Movie Awards (Bifa) longlist for the Raindance Maverick award consists of documentaries Witches by Elizabeth Sankey and Strike: An Uncivil Conflict by Daniel Gordon.
The 13-strong longlist additionally consists of Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s non-fiction title Grand Theft Hamlet, a couple of staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet contained in the Grand Theft Auto videogame.
Scroll down for the total longlist
Witches examines the connection between cinematic portrayals of witches and postpartum melancholy, utilising archival movie footage alongside private testimony. Having been the only non-fiction title within the UK’s Nice 8 showcase at Cannes this 12 months, the movie premiered at Tribeca in June, occurring to play Rio and London movie festivals.
Strike: An Uncivil Conflict makes use of private testimony, hidden authorities paperwork and unseen archive to shed new mild on the UK miners’ strike of 1984-85, with a deal with the Battle of Orgreave. It debuted at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June.
Grand Theft Hamlet has now been chosen on 4 longlists (Debut Director – Function Documentary; Breakthrough Producer; Documentary; Maverick), as has Jack King’s The Ceremony, (Debut Director; Debut Screenwriter; Breakthrough Producer; Maverick) whereas Witches is on three (Breakthrough Producer; Documentary; Maverick).
Gino Evans’ dependancy drama Treading Water additionally receives its third longlisting, having beforehand been chosen for Breakthrough Efficiency for Joe Gill and Breakthrough Producer for Ben Toye.
Neurodivergence documentary The Stimming Pool, created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers, additionally now has three spots, additionally in Debut Director – Function Documentary and Breakthrough Producer for Chloe White.
Bifa longlists for breakthrough efficiency, new expertise filmmakers and the documentary and worldwide classes have been printed throughout the final week.
The ultimate 5 nominations in every class shall be unveiled on Thursday, November 5; with the winners introduced on the Bifa ceremony on Sunday, December 8 on the Camden Roundhouse in London.
Bifa Raindance Maverick 2024 longlist
The Ceremony, dir. Jack King
The Flight Of Bryan, dir. James Erskine
Grand Theft Hamlet, dirs. Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
King Child, dirs. Package Redstone, Arran Shearing
Reawakening, dir. Virginia Gilbert
Stressed, dir. Jed Hart
Satu – Yr Of The Rabbit, dir. Joshua Trigg
Silent Males, dir. Duncan Cowles
The Stimming Pool, dirs. Georgia Bradburn, Lucy Walker, Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown Ahern, Robin Elliot Knowles, Steven Eastwood
Strike: An Uncivil Conflict, dir. Daniel Gordon
Tops, dirs. Jos Bitelli, Ames Pennington
Treading Water, dir. Gino Evans
Witches, dir. Elizabeth Sankey