“The Kitchen” co-director and co-writer Daniel Kaluuya and “Polite Society” writer-director Nida Manzoor are among the emerging talents recognized at theBritish Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) New Talent categories.
Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction and 15 documentary features have been longlisted in the four debut filmmaking categories. Nineteen first-time fiction feature directors, 17 first-time feature documentary directors, 17 first-time writers and 24 breakthrough producers have been recognized by BIFA voters this year.
BIFA Springboard, an annual program supporting second-time feature filmmakers will launch in early 2024.BIFA will reveal the Netflix-sponsored 2023 breakthrough performance longlist, which highlights British acting talent in their first significant role in a British feature film, on Oct. 24. The final five nominations in each category will be unveiledon Nov. 2. Winners will be revealed at the 26thBIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) Sponsored By Bbc Film
Prasanna Puwanarajah – “Ballywalter”
Savanah Leaf – “Earth Mama”
Mahalia Belo – “The End We Start From”
Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping – “Femme”
Adura onashile – “Girl”
Molly Manning Walker – “How To Have Sex”
Naqqash Khalid – “In Camera”
Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry – “Kensuke’s Kingdom”
Kibwe Tavares, Daniel Kaluuya – “The Kitchen”
Nida Manzoor – “Polite Society”
Dionne Edwards – “Pretty Red Dress”
Paris Zarcilla – “Raging Grace”
Raine Allen-Miller – “Rye Lane”
Charlotte Regan – “Scrapper”
Moin Hussain – “Sky Peals”
Farah Nabulsi – “The Teacher”
Best Debut Screenwriter Sponsored By Film4
Savanah Leaf – “Earth Mama”
Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping – “Femme”
Adura onashile – “Girl”
Molly Manning Walker – “How To Have Sex”
Naqqash Khalid – “In Camera”
Daniel Kaluuya – “The Kitchen” (also written by Joe Murtagh)
Alex Mackeith – “The Lesson”
Angeli Macfarlane – “Lola” (also written by Andrew Legge)
Nida Manzoor – “Polite Society”
Dionne Edwards – “Pretty Red Dress”
Paris Zarcilla – “Raging Grace”
Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia – “Rye Lane”
Charlotte Regan – “Scrapper”
Moin Hussain – “Sky Peals”
Farah Nabulsi – “The Teacher”
Best Debut Director – Feature documentary
Oscar Harding – “A Life on the Farm”
Christopher Morris – “A Year In a Field”
Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn – “Another Body”
Christopher Sharp – “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” (also directed by Moses Bwayo)
Franky Murray Brown – “Dalton’s Dream” (also directed by Kim Longinotto)
Rich Felgate – “Finite: The Climate Of Change”
Alice Russell – “If the Streets Were on Fire”
Ella Glendining – “Is There Anybody Out There?”
Eva Weber – “Merkel”
Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher – “Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story”
Kate Stonehill – “Phantom Parrot”
Kit Vincent – “Red Herring”
Jane Giles, Ali Catterall – “Scala!!! Or, The Wildest Cinema and How it Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits”
Chloe Abrahams – “The Taste of Mango”
Breakthrough Producer Sponsored By Pinewood & Shepperton Studios
Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn – “Another Body” (also produced by Elizabeth Woodward)
Lorine Plagnol – “Dalton’s Dream” (also produced by Kim Longinotto)
Medb Riordan, Shirley O’connor, Savanah Leaf – “Earth Mama” (also produced by Cody Ryder and Sam Bisbee)
Sam Ritzenberg, Myles Payne – “Femme”
Gannesh Rajah – “If the Streets Were on Fire”
Juliette Larthe – “In Camera” (also produced by Mary Burke)
Fleur Nieddu, Edward Lovelace, Sam Arnold, Beyan Taher, Neil Andrews – “Name Me Lawand” (also produced by Marisa Clifford)
Georgia Goggin – “Pretty Red Dress”
Chi Thai – “Raging Grace”
Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo – “Rye Lane”
Theo Barrowclough – “Scrapper”
Adam Deacon, Jazzie Zonzolo – “Sumotherhood” (also produced by Finn Bruce)
Farah Nabulsi, Sawsan Asfari – “The Teacher” (also produced by Ossama Bawadi)
Juliet Dowling – “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” (also produced by Marilyn Milgrom and Kevin Loader)
