EXCLUSIVE: 15 options have been longlisted for the Raindance Maverick award on the British Impartial Movie Awards (Bifas), together with Ben Wheatley’s Film4-backed sci-fi Bulk.
Written by Wheatley and produced by Andy Starke for Rook Movies, Bulk sees an overzealous scientist push his experiments with string idea too far, inflicting his ‘brane’ (not ‘mind’) to blow up.
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The movie had its world premiere because the opening evening of the Midnight Insanity strand at Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Competition this summer season.
Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Alexandra Maria Lara and Mark Monero lead the solid. Wheatley has an extended historical past with Raindance and the Bifas: his low-budget debut Down Terrace gained the Raindance jury prize for greatest UK characteristic in 2009, whereas he has been nominated for the Bifa for greatest director on three events.
The Raindance Maverick award on the Bifas is for fiction options produced for beneath £1m, or documentaries beneath £500,000.
Different longlisted movies embrace Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Mission, additionally on the very best characteristic documentary longlist introduced yesterday by Display; and Victoria Mapplebeck’s smartphone-filmed Motherboard, which is on the documentary and greatest debut director – characteristic documentary lists.
Sophie Compton and Daisy-Could Hudson’s Holloway can also be listed, having made the documentary checklist and breakthrough producer checklist for Polly Creed. Hudson has two movies in rivalry on the Bifas this 12 months, together with her drama Lollipop one in all 4 movies to characteristic 5 occasions on the longlists.
The longlists have beforehand been introduced for breakthrough efficiency, new expertise classes, documentary, and greatest worldwide characteristic movie.
The Bifa nominations in each class shall be introduced on Monday, November 3. Winners shall be unveiled on the Bifa ceremony on the Camden Roundhouse in London on Sunday, November 30.
Final 12 months’s Maverick award went to Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s documentary Grand Theft Hamlet.
Bifa 2025 Raindance Maverick award longlist
- Bulk, dir. Ben Wheatley
- Dali, dir. Mickey Angelov
- Departures, dir. Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Neil Ely
- The Extraordinary Miss Flower, dirs. Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
- Foul Evil Deeds, dir. Richard Hunter
- Hakeem, dirs. Deadhorses (Ivo Beckett, James Topley
- Holloway, dirs. Sophie Compton, Daisy-Could Hudson
- Mom Vera, dirs. Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson
- Motherboard, dir. Victoria Mapplebeck
- On The Sea, dir. Helen Walsh
- Palestine Comedy Membership, dir. Alaa Aliabdallah
- Paul & Paulette Take A Bathtub, dir. Jethro Massey
- Part, dir. Jessica Vogt
- A Need In Her, dir. Myrid Carten
- Zodiac Killer Mission, dir. Charlie Shackleton
