Stars: Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Joe Thomas, Sophia Di Martino, Raph Shirley, Chris Langham, Sharon D. Clarke, Ewan Bailey, Helen Cripps, Jamie Demetriou, Simon Bird | Written by Tiani Ghosh, Will Sharpe | Directed by Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Talk about a movie where you just don’t know where to start! With The Darkest Universe, co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe have crafted what I can only describe as my favorite, completely surreal, yet right down to earth, drama I have watched in 2016… Wait, no, in years.
As I have said previously, I am on a real Indie “hidden gem” kick right now and I was asked to review this movie suspecting that it would be right up my street. And it is. The Darkest Universe is an absolute gem of a movie for more reasons than I can explain, but I will try.
Co-director and co-writer Will Sharpe plays highly...
Talk about a movie where you just don’t know where to start! With The Darkest Universe, co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe have crafted what I can only describe as my favorite, completely surreal, yet right down to earth, drama I have watched in 2016… Wait, no, in years.
As I have said previously, I am on a real Indie “hidden gem” kick right now and I was asked to review this movie suspecting that it would be right up my street. And it is. The Darkest Universe is an absolute gem of a movie for more reasons than I can explain, but I will try.
Co-director and co-writer Will Sharpe plays highly...
- 12/28/2016
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
“American Honey” took the top prize at the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, which was held on Sunday at London’s Old Billingsgate.
“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.
The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”
Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.
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The Richard Harris Award was given to Alison Steadman by Richard Harris’ granddaughter Ella Harris and...
“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.
The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”
Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.
Read More: La Film Critics Association Name the Best Films and Performances of 2016
The Richard Harris Award was given to Alison Steadman by Richard Harris’ granddaughter Ella Harris and...
- 12/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Andrea Arnold’s American Honey was the big winner on the night.
The 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were held at Old Billingsgate Market in London on December 4. Andrea Arnold’s American Honey won four awards, Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake won two.
*winners indicated in bold.
BIFAs 2016Best British Independent FilmAMERICAN Honey Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas OchoaCOUPLE In A Hole Tom Geens, Zorana PiggottI, Daniel Blake Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’BrienNOTES On Blindness Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex UsborneUNDER The Shadow Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan TohBest International Independent FilmHUNT For The Wilderpeople Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne SaundersMANCHESTER By The Sea Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. WalshMOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy KleinerMUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles...
The 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were held at Old Billingsgate Market in London on December 4. Andrea Arnold’s American Honey won four awards, Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake won two.
*winners indicated in bold.
BIFAs 2016Best British Independent FilmAMERICAN Honey Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas OchoaCOUPLE In A Hole Tom Geens, Zorana PiggottI, Daniel Blake Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’BrienNOTES On Blindness Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex UsborneUNDER The Shadow Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan TohBest International Independent FilmHUNT For The Wilderpeople Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne SaundersMANCHESTER By The Sea Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. WalshMOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy KleinerMUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles...
- 12/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
Follow the 2016 British Independent Film Awards live.
The 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) are being held at Old Billingsgate Market in London today (Dec 4). Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leads the nominations with seven, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey is up for six awards.
*winners indicated in bold.
BIFAs 2016Best British Independent FilmAMERICAN Honey Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas OchoaCOUPLE In A Hole Tom Geens, Zorana PiggottI, Daniel Blake Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’BrienNOTES On Blindness Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex UsborneUNDER The Shadow Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan TohBest International Independent FilmHUNT For The Wilderpeople Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne SaundersMANCHESTER By The Sea Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. WalshMOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy KleinerMUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles...
The 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) are being held at Old Billingsgate Market in London today (Dec 4). Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leads the nominations with seven, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey is up for six awards.
*winners indicated in bold.
BIFAs 2016Best British Independent FilmAMERICAN Honey Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas OchoaCOUPLE In A Hole Tom Geens, Zorana PiggottI, Daniel Blake Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’BrienNOTES On Blindness Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex UsborneUNDER The Shadow Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan TohBest International Independent FilmHUNT For The Wilderpeople Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne SaundersMANCHESTER By The Sea Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. WalshMOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy KleinerMUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles...
- 12/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
A banker searches for his sister in Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe’s hilarious follow-up to Black Pond
The follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut, Black Pond, sees directing duo Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite on another offbeat oddity that combines piercingly funny observation with unashamed weirdness. Sharpe, who also co-wrote the film, stars as Zac, a city banker in the throes of a breakdown as he searches for his missing sister, Alice (Tiani Ghosh). It’s episodic and fractured, but this tale of romance and loss is really rather lovely. It’s also very amusing: Zac’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend is perhaps the most catastrophically awkward moment of botched intimacy I have seen this year. Zac’s website footage is deftly incorporated into a film that reveals its hand satisfyingly slowly.
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The follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut, Black Pond, sees directing duo Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite on another offbeat oddity that combines piercingly funny observation with unashamed weirdness. Sharpe, who also co-wrote the film, stars as Zac, a city banker in the throes of a breakdown as he searches for his missing sister, Alice (Tiani Ghosh). It’s episodic and fractured, but this tale of romance and loss is really rather lovely. It’s also very amusing: Zac’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend is perhaps the most catastrophically awkward moment of botched intimacy I have seen this year. Zac’s website footage is deftly incorporated into a film that reveals its hand satisfyingly slowly.
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- 11/6/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley direct an affecting, intelligent drama about a young guy whose stroppy yet lovable sibling vanishes
With their excellent 2011 comedy Black Pond, British film-makers Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley became two of the youngest Bafta nominees in history. Now they are back with a movie of strangeness and charm, co-written by Sharpe with newcomer Tiani Ghosh: it is tonally elusive, its comedy credentials interestingly ambiguous. The film is disquieting and sad, hitting an eerie elegaic note for a loss that isn’t immediately comprehensible.
Sharpe plays Zac, a young guy whose exasperatingly stroppy yet lovable sister Alice (played by Ghosh) has gone off on a canal trip in the narrowboat where she had been living with her boyfriend Toby (Joe Thomas). Then the couple just vanished. At first Zac is frantic with worry, aggressive with the police officers who aren’t too fussed about yet another missing-person case; finally,...
With their excellent 2011 comedy Black Pond, British film-makers Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley became two of the youngest Bafta nominees in history. Now they are back with a movie of strangeness and charm, co-written by Sharpe with newcomer Tiani Ghosh: it is tonally elusive, its comedy credentials interestingly ambiguous. The film is disquieting and sad, hitting an eerie elegaic note for a loss that isn’t immediately comprehensible.
Sharpe plays Zac, a young guy whose exasperatingly stroppy yet lovable sister Alice (played by Ghosh) has gone off on a canal trip in the narrowboat where she had been living with her boyfriend Toby (Joe Thomas). Then the couple just vanished. At first Zac is frantic with worry, aggressive with the police officers who aren’t too fussed about yet another missing-person case; finally,...
- 11/3/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
American Honey, Notes On Blindness, Adult Life Skills, Under The Shadow also score multiple noms.
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leads this year’s British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) nominations, which were announced this morning by British actors Ophelia Lovibond and Douglas Booth in London.
Loach’s timely social drama - which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or earlier this year - was nominated in seven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Co-stars Hayley Squires and Dave Johns are each nominated twice – for Best Actress and Best Actor and will also go head to head in the Most Promising Newcomer category.
The other nominees in the Best British Independent Film category are American Honey (six nominations), Couple in a Hole (two nominations), Notes on Blindness (six nominations) and the Under The Shadow (six nominations).
Other titles with receiving multiple nominations but in other categories included Adult Life Skills (six nominations) and zombie...
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leads this year’s British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) nominations, which were announced this morning by British actors Ophelia Lovibond and Douglas Booth in London.
Loach’s timely social drama - which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or earlier this year - was nominated in seven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Co-stars Hayley Squires and Dave Johns are each nominated twice – for Best Actress and Best Actor and will also go head to head in the Most Promising Newcomer category.
The other nominees in the Best British Independent Film category are American Honey (six nominations), Couple in a Hole (two nominations), Notes on Blindness (six nominations) and the Under The Shadow (six nominations).
Other titles with receiving multiple nominations but in other categories included Adult Life Skills (six nominations) and zombie...
- 11/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
British directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite after their BAFTA nominated first feature Black Pond with an effortlessly funny, expertly crafted and thought-provoking missing persons tale. Initially set around Regent’s Canal, The Darkest Universe follows controlling young banker Zac (played by co-director Will Sharpe) as he searches for his eccentric sister Alice (Tiani Ghosh)
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- 4/29/2016
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Principal photography has wrapped on Archer’s Mark’s The Darkest Universe, Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley’s follow-up to their BAFTA-nominated Black Pond.
Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners fame stars alongside co-writer Tiani Ghosh.
The supporting cast includes Simon Bird, Chris Langham, Nick Mohammed and Johnny Sweet.
Sharpe and Kingsley say the film is “a romantic comedy set in space, or – to be more specific – on planet Earth.”
Jo-Jo Ellison produces for Archer’s Mark, alongside the company’s executive producers, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Archer’s Mark also produced the forthcoming documentary feature Next Goal Wins and upcoming political thriller War Book, co-produced with Sixteen Films.
Sharpe said: “We’ve been really inspired by Archer’s Mark and their can-do attitude to film-making. They are intelligent, resourceful and creatively ambitious. We haven’t met a more forward thinking company and I’d be very surprised if they don’t play a crucial role in...
Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners fame stars alongside co-writer Tiani Ghosh.
The supporting cast includes Simon Bird, Chris Langham, Nick Mohammed and Johnny Sweet.
Sharpe and Kingsley say the film is “a romantic comedy set in space, or – to be more specific – on planet Earth.”
Jo-Jo Ellison produces for Archer’s Mark, alongside the company’s executive producers, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Archer’s Mark also produced the forthcoming documentary feature Next Goal Wins and upcoming political thriller War Book, co-produced with Sixteen Films.
Sharpe said: “We’ve been really inspired by Archer’s Mark and their can-do attitude to film-making. They are intelligent, resourceful and creatively ambitious. We haven’t met a more forward thinking company and I’d be very surprised if they don’t play a crucial role in...
- 2/27/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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