EXCLUSIVE: Actors from Daisy-Might Hudson’s Lollipop and Nadia Fall’s Brides are among the many 15 names longlisted for the breakthrough efficiency award on the 2025 British Unbiased Movie Awards (Bifas).
Three actors are listed from Hudson’s debut fiction function Lollipop: Posy Sterling (a Display Star of Tomorrow in 2023), Idil Ahmed and Tegan-Mia Stanley Rhoads.
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Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar, stars of Fall’s debut function Brides, each make the listing; as do three actors from Stroma Cairns’ The Son And The Sea: Stanley Brock, Connor Tompkins and Jonah West.
Yasmin Finney, one other Display Star of Tomorrow from 2022, can be listed, for Ronan Corrigan’s LifeHack, alongside co-star Georgie Farmer; as is 2025 Display Star Jade Croot for Rabbit Lure.
The longlisted expertise will all be welcomed to the Bifa and We Are Bridge breakthrough performers programme, a six-month improvement and help scheme with classes on profession improvement, wellbeing, casting and monetary literacy along with networking alternatives.
The ultimate 5 nominees within the breakthrough efficiency class will probably be introduced on Monday, November 3, with the winner revealed on the Bifa ceremony on Sunday, November 30 on the Roundhouse venue in Camden, London.
Earlier winners in Bifa’s breakthrough efficiency class embrace Vivian Oparah, Naomi Ackie, Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw and Jamie Bell.
The Bifa longlists for its new expertise, shorts, documentary, worldwide, and maverick awards will probably be introduced throughout the approaching week.
Bifa Breakthrough Efficiency longlist 2025
- Idil Ahmed – Lollipop
- Stanley Brock – The Son and the Sea
- Jade Croot – Rabbit Lure
- Georgie Farmer – LifeHack
- Yasmin Finney – LifeHack
- Farhan Hasnat – Ish
- Ebada Hassan – Brides
- Safiyya Ingar – Brides
- Yahya Kitana – Ish
- Polly Maberly – Odyssey
- Tegan-Mia Stanley Rhoads – Lollipop
- Posy Sterling – Lollipop
- Connor Tompkins – The Son and the Sea
- Scott Ellis Watson – I Swear
- Jonah West – The Son and the Sea
