The BFI London Movie Competition will current 5 function movies and documentaries by UK-based filmmakers at its fourth annual Works-in-Progress showcase. Scroll down for the lineup.
The showcase, which kinds a part of the competition’s business program, will likely be an in-person occasion at Picturehouse Central the place filmmakers will display screen extracts from their initiatives for an invited viewers of worldwide consumers and competition programmers.
The initiatives are both in manufacturing or post-production. An internet bundle with the initiatives will even be out there on-line for one week from October 7 via a safe platform to a wider pool of invited worldwide business professionals.
Final 12 months, two initiatives from the 2021 in-progress lineup have been screened through the LFF. The pics have been Fairly Crimson Gown, written and directed by Dionne Edwards, and Medusa Deluxe, written and directed by Thomas Hardiman. This 12 months, Lady written and directed by Adura Onashile, which premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Competition and can display screen at LFF, alongside Hoard, written and directed by Luna Carmoon, which premiered on the Venice Movie Competition. Each movies have been a part of the 2022 works-in-progress showcase.
The in-person showcase will happen on October 7 as a part of the Competition’s UK Expertise Days.
“My thanks to the filmmakers for presenting their work with us. It’s a great privilege to welcome these teams to London to meet with industry leaders, distributors, and financiers as well as other creators,” mentioned Kristy Matheson.
“We look forward to seeing their fruitful creative and business collaborations that will emerge at the festival.”
The 2023 Works-in-Progress initiatives are:
· THE CEREMONY; dir-wr Jack King; prods Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer; forged Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu, Erdal Yildiz. In post-production. Gross sales contact – Cosmosquare Movies, Try Movies
A self-taught author and director from Yorkshire, Jack began out making music movies for unbiased and main document labels which racked up repeated Vimeo employees picks and thousands and thousands of views on-line. He made a string of unbiased shorts earlier than The Crossing was funded by the BFI and Inventive England (awarding funds from the Nationwide Lottery), and chosen to play at a number of BAFTA and American Academy® qualifying festivals. His unbiased quick Prints was shot on a tiny price range in Japan and was chosen to play in competitors on the Clermont-Ferrand Quick Movie Competition (2019). Jack was chosen to take part in NETWORK@LFF in 2019 and Edinburgh Expertise Lab in 2021. His most up-to-date quick Predators was funded by BFI NETWORK (utilizing Nationwide Lottery funding) and also will premiere at this 12 months’s competition. Whereas in post-production with The Ceremony, Jack is creating his second function, Sunburn, an Andalusian-set thriller that was chosen for the 2022 Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Competition’s Expertise Lab Connects programme.
The Ceremony is an existential street drama a few migrant employee and his colleague who, with solely a single day and night time to discover a burial floor for a departed colleague, discover their quest hampered by their ethical and religious variations.
· HARDER THAN THE ROCK, dir Mark Warmington; prods Mark Warmington, Jeremiah Cullinane; co-producer James Baxter; forged Locksley Gichie, Franklyn Dunn, Michael Arkk, Winston Reedy. About to begin post-production. Gross sales contact – Margot Movies
Filmmaker Mark Warmington is initially from Northern Eire and has lived in north-west London for 20 years. He just lately relocated to the north-east of England. He has directed for tv, however his profession is usually dominated by his work as a director of images. More durable Than The Rock is his function directorial debut. Mark’s cinematography credit on movies embody Calcio: The Blood Of Florence (2017), Paul Weller: Discover The Torch (2010), the quick Someplace I’ve Been (2021) and the BFI-funded quick Pole (2022); TV collection together with the BBC’s High Gear and the Amazon collection All or Nothing: NZ All Blacks. He has additionally shot music movies for artists together with Maverick Sabre, Hollie Prepare dinner, Tom Walker and Paul Weller.
Reggae exploded within the Nineteen Seventies and Cimarons, the UK’s first reggae band, shaped in 1967, have been at its coronary heart. Hundreds of miles from Jamaica, they introduced pleasure, experimentation and sheer anticipation to a brand new era of Black British youth, placing them in contact with their roots. More durable Than The Rock celebrates Cimaron’s storied historical past and explores the band’s ignored affect and affect as they persevere towards all odds and dream of taking part in to stay audiences once more, one final time…
· LOW RIDER; dir Campbell X; wrs: Campbell X, Stephen Strachan; prods Stella Nwimo, Rebecca Lengthy; forged Emma McDonald, Thisiwe Ziqbu. In post-production. Gross sales contact – Boudica Leisure
Campbell X’s work offers with queer reminiscence, want and Blackness throughout the African diaspora. He directed the award-winning queer city romantic comedy function Stud Life, which was voted by The Guardian as one of many prime 10 Black British function movies over the previous 40 years. Stud Life is within the Criterion Channel’s Masc Assortment. Campbell’s newest movie, the quick Nonetheless We Thrive, about Black pleasure and resistance, is now screening globally at movie festivals. He directed and produced the quick movie Des!re about pleasure and sensuality for males (trans and non-binary) and masculine ladies (ie studs/butches), whereas the documentary Seen appears to be like at reclaiming QTBIPOC UK historical past.
Londoner Quinn is at a crossroads. When her mom out of the blue dies, Quinn’s seek for her errant South African father begins. Quinn’s impulsive mission to reconnect with him, just isn’t as simple as she’d imagined and an opportunity encounter in Cape City with the mysterious Harley, providing to assist Quinn on the journey to attach along with her father, takes Quinn on a tumultuous, twisty flip via Western Capes’ underbelly and backwaters. On this Black queer street journey journey, Quinn is confronted with the realities of her id, the reality and lies of her previous.
· SMOKING SHORES; dirDavid Warwick; professional Dewi Gregory. Filming. Gross sales contact – Reality Division.
David Warwick is a writer-director whose movies draw on a specific curiosity in place, panorama and the immediacy of bodily expertise, in addition to debates inside modern philosophy and significant concept. His quick movie Out For A Stroll screened at quite a few movie festivals such because the Drama Worldwide Quick Movie Competition, Filmfestival Kitzbühel and Aesthetica Quick Movie Competition. David works as a director of commercials and documentary content material for well-known manufacturers and charities, alongside media organisations akin to The Guardian. He beforehand labored as a movie journalist, and as an affiliate producer for Portland Inexperienced, the place he facilitated movie initiatives by main artists such because the Brothers Quay, Simon Keenlyside, Wayne McGregor and Lucian Freud. David can also be a eager surfer and co-founder of the analysis collective, Res Communis.
Within the shadow of Port Talbot steelworks, generations of native surfers trip waves of uncertainty on this unlikely surf spot.
· A WINTER’S JOURNEY, dir-wr Alex Helfrecht; prods Jorg Tittel, Richard Mansell, Hugh Welchman; forged John Malkovich, Martina Gedeck, Jason Isaacs, Marcin Czarnik, Ólafur Darri Ólaffsson, Gabriella Moran. In post-production. Gross sales firm – MK2 Movies
Born in Oxford in 1979, Alex grew up in France and the Caribbean. Specialising in adaptation Alex Helfrecht’s movies embody the multi-award nominated The White King, co-directed with Jörg Tittel, and starring Jonathan Pryce, Fiona Shaw and Agyness Deyn; and the agit-prop quick Nyet! A Brexit Border Farce, starring Olivia Williams, Garry Mountaine and Beatie Edney. Alex additionally tailored Ernest Hemingway’s Fiesta: The Solar Additionally Rises for the West Finish stage at Trafalgar Studios.She is at the moment creating a documentary movie the Trojan Ladies, a radical transforming of the Euripides play instructed fully by feminine survivors, as a co-production with the Nationwide Theatre of Greece. It can contain strolling 250 miles throughout the Peloponnese and performing within the magnificent Odeon of Herodus Atticus.
Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn younger poet banished from society is pressured to wander throughout mountains, ice and snow, on a harmful journey which can both lead him to demise or to a brand new life.
