Signature Entertainment has released the official UK trailer for Reawakening, the latest British psychological thriller from BAFTA-nominated writer-director Virginia Gilbert. Set to launch on digital platforms on 18th November, the film stars Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, and Erin Doherty in a haunting story that explores the devastating effects of grief and the complexities of familial bonds strained by tragedy.
Reawakening follows John (Harris) and Mary (Stevenson), a couple whose lives have been consumed by grief since their daughter, Clare, vanished without a trace a decade earlier. When Clare (Doherty) suddenly reappears, Mary is overcome with relief and joy, eager to reconnect with the daughter she thought she had lost forever. But John remains sceptical, suspecting that the young woman who has returned is not their Clare. As the couple’s opposing emotions clash, the story delves into a dark mystery, testing the limits of love, memory, and trust.
Virginia Gilbert...
Reawakening follows John (Harris) and Mary (Stevenson), a couple whose lives have been consumed by grief since their daughter, Clare, vanished without a trace a decade earlier. When Clare (Doherty) suddenly reappears, Mary is overcome with relief and joy, eager to reconnect with the daughter she thought she had lost forever. But John remains sceptical, suspecting that the young woman who has returned is not their Clare. As the couple’s opposing emotions clash, the story delves into a dark mystery, testing the limits of love, memory, and trust.
Virginia Gilbert...
- 11/12/2024
- by Oliver Mitchell
- Love Horror
Maverick Minds
London’s Raindance Film Festival has unveiled its 13-title longlist for the BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Raindance Maverick Award, recognizing independent films made with budgets under £1 million ($1.3 million).
The lineup includes “Grand Theft Hamlet,” shot entirely within “Grand Theft Auto,” following two unemployed actors staging Shakespeare in the game’s virtual world, and “Strike: An Uncivil War,” which won Sheffield DocFest’s best documentary audience award for its examination of the 1984/85 miners’ strike.
Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “The Raindance Maverick Award longlist captures the essence of independent cinema at its purest, rebellious and unapologetic best.”
Full longlist:
“The Ceremony”
“The Flight of Bryan”
“Grand Theft Hamlet”
“King Baby”
“Reawakening”
“Restless”
“Satu – Year of the Rabbit” (Joshua Trigg)
“Silent Men” (Duncan Cowles)
“The Stimming Pool”
“Strike: An Uncivil War”
“Tops”
“Treading Water”
“Witches”
The nominations will be announced Nov. 5, with winners revealed at the BIFA ceremony on Dec.
London’s Raindance Film Festival has unveiled its 13-title longlist for the BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) Raindance Maverick Award, recognizing independent films made with budgets under £1 million ($1.3 million).
The lineup includes “Grand Theft Hamlet,” shot entirely within “Grand Theft Auto,” following two unemployed actors staging Shakespeare in the game’s virtual world, and “Strike: An Uncivil War,” which won Sheffield DocFest’s best documentary audience award for its examination of the 1984/85 miners’ strike.
Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “The Raindance Maverick Award longlist captures the essence of independent cinema at its purest, rebellious and unapologetic best.”
Full longlist:
“The Ceremony”
“The Flight of Bryan”
“Grand Theft Hamlet”
“King Baby”
“Reawakening”
“Restless”
“Satu – Year of the Rabbit” (Joshua Trigg)
“Silent Men” (Duncan Cowles)
“The Stimming Pool”
“Strike: An Uncivil War”
“Tops”
“Treading Water”
“Witches”
The nominations will be announced Nov. 5, with winners revealed at the BIFA ceremony on Dec.
- 10/23/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, about out-of-work theater actors who try to stage a production of Hamlet within the video game Grand Theft Auto during the Covid lockdown, and Witches, Elizabeth Sankey’s doc that posits a connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering, are among 13 feature films on the longlist for this year’s Raindance Maverick Award at the British Independent Film Awards, or BIFAs.
Also on the longlist are the likes of Strike: An Uncivil War, the best documentary audience award winner at this year’s Sheffield DocFest that uses personal testimony, formerly hidden government documents, and unseen archive footage to tell the story of the Battle of Orgreave during the British miners’ strike of 1984/85; Treading Water, which tells the story of a man who is newly released from prison and struggling with addiction and mental health issues; and King Baby, “a...
Also on the longlist are the likes of Strike: An Uncivil War, the best documentary audience award winner at this year’s Sheffield DocFest that uses personal testimony, formerly hidden government documents, and unseen archive footage to tell the story of the Battle of Orgreave during the British miners’ strike of 1984/85; Treading Water, which tells the story of a man who is newly released from prison and struggling with addiction and mental health issues; and King Baby, “a...
- 10/23/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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...
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...
- 10/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” and Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard” are among the titles in the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) 2024 filmmaker new talent longlists, unveiled Friday. The selections spotlight 31 British features across four debut filmmaking categories, encompassing both fiction and documentary works.
Peppiatt and Carmoon join a group of first-time directors vying for the Douglas Hickox Award, including Amrou Al-Kadhi for “Layla,” Christopher Andrews for “Bring Them Down,” and Daina O Pusić for “Tuesday.” Other contenders in this category are Lucy Cohen with “Edge of Summer,” James Krishna Floyd for “Unicorns,” Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” Karan Kandhari’s “Sister Midnight,” Jack King’s “The Ceremony,” Rob Morgan’s “Stopmotion,” Sasha Nathwani’s “Last Swim,” and Joshua Trigg’s “Satu – Year of the Rabbit.” The category is sponsored by BBC Film.
The best debut screenwriter category, sponsored by Film4, sees Andrews and Carmoon competing alongside Floyd, Jed Hart for “Restless,...
Peppiatt and Carmoon join a group of first-time directors vying for the Douglas Hickox Award, including Amrou Al-Kadhi for “Layla,” Christopher Andrews for “Bring Them Down,” and Daina O Pusić for “Tuesday.” Other contenders in this category are Lucy Cohen with “Edge of Summer,” James Krishna Floyd for “Unicorns,” Stuart Gatt’s “Catching Dust,” Karan Kandhari’s “Sister Midnight,” Jack King’s “The Ceremony,” Rob Morgan’s “Stopmotion,” Sasha Nathwani’s “Last Swim,” and Joshua Trigg’s “Satu – Year of the Rabbit.” The category is sponsored by BBC Film.
The best debut screenwriter category, sponsored by Film4, sees Andrews and Carmoon competing alongside Floyd, Jed Hart for “Restless,...
- 10/18/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmakers from Bring Them Down, The Ceremony and Tuesday feature prominently on the filmmaker new talent longlists for the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas).
Bring Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director and the best debut screenwriter award, while the film’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.
Scroll down for the filmmaker New Talent longlists
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.
Four filmmaker new...
Bring Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director and the best debut screenwriter award, while the film’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.
Scroll down for the filmmaker New Talent longlists
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.
Four filmmaker new...
- 10/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
The psychological thriller is the feature debut of UK writer-director Virginia Gilbert, a Screen Star of Tomorrow.
WestEnd Films has acquired international rights to UK writer-director Virginia Gilbert’s feature debut Reawakening, about a couple whose daughter reappears after going missing a decade earlier aged just 14.
It will introduce the film to buyers at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Jared Harris, Juliet Stephenson and Erin Doherty star in the film which has just wrapped following a UK shoot. It is produced by Gilbert and Barry Castagnola’s Rustle Up Productions, with Jared Harris and Lucette Walters’ Little Light Films as executive producers.
WestEnd Films has acquired international rights to UK writer-director Virginia Gilbert’s feature debut Reawakening, about a couple whose daughter reappears after going missing a decade earlier aged just 14.
It will introduce the film to buyers at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Jared Harris, Juliet Stephenson and Erin Doherty star in the film which has just wrapped following a UK shoot. It is produced by Gilbert and Barry Castagnola’s Rustle Up Productions, with Jared Harris and Lucette Walters’ Little Light Films as executive producers.
- 8/29/2022
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
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