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‘Kneecap’, ‘Hoard’ Filmmakers Among BIFA 2024 New Talent Longlists
British Independent Film Awards unveil 2024 new talent longlists, featuring 31 British features across four debut filmmaking categories.
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,” Kandhari, King, Peppiatt, Pusić, Sandhya Suri for “Santosh,” and the writing duo of Mrs & Mr Thomas for “The Assessment.” The breakthrough producer longlist, sponsored by Pinewood & Shepperton Studios, recognizes talents such as Beth Allan for “Tummy Monster,” Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer for “The Ceremony,” Mark David for “Catching Dust,” Balthazar de Ganay and James Bowsher for “Santosh,” Robert Ford for “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” Helen Gladders for “Tuesday,” Savannah James-Bayly for “Layla,” Virginia Gilbert and Barry Castagnola for “Reawakening,” John McKay for “Falling Into Place,” Nisha Mullea for “Last Swim,” Jacob Swan Hyam for “Bring Them Down,” Ben Toye for “Treading Water,” Jeremy Warmsley and Chiara Ventura for “Witches,” Chloe White for “The Stimming Pool,” and Rebecca Wolff for “Grand Theft Hamlet.”
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