Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men and Edward Lovelace’s Name Me Lawand are among the 11 films longlisted for the renamed Bifa Maverick award, which has an increased budget cap this year.
Formerly the Raindance Discovery award, the Maverick prize is now open to independent UK features made for up to £1m – up from the previous cap of £500,000.
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There is no limit on UK theatrical distribution for the award.
Nine of the 11 films are documentaries, including Screen Star of Tomorrow Ella Glendining’s Is There Anybody Out There?.
Alice Russell’s documentary If The Streets Were On Fire and Paris Zarcilla’s horror Raging Grace become the most-longlisted films so far at the 2023 awards with four longlist spots each. Both were previously included in the New Talent longlists on Wednesday; then the documentary and International feature lists yesterday.
The final Bifa features longlist will be announced on Monday, for best short film; and Tuesday, for breakthrough performance.
The five nominations in each category will be unveiled on Thursday, November 2; with the winners announced at the Bifa ceremony on Sunday, December 3.
Bifa Raindance Maverick award longlist
A Life On The Farm -Oscar Harding
Enys Men – Mark Jenkin, Denzil Monk
Finite: The Climate Of Change – Rich Felgate
If The Streets Were On Fire – Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah
Is There Anybody Out There? – Ella Glendining, Janine Marmot
Name Me Lawand – Edward Lovelace
Raging Grace – Paris Zarcilla, Chi Thai
Red Herring – Kit Vincent, Ed Owles
The Taste Of Mango – Chloe Abrahams, Elliot Whitton
While We Watched – Vinay Shukla, Luke Moody, Khushboo Ranka
Your Fat Friend – Jeanie Finlay
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