British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) reveal longlists, move to February

Today, the British Independent Film Awards committee announced they are moving their traditional end-of-year festivities to sometime in February 2021 and also revealed the first longlists in three categories: Debut Director, Debut Screenwriter and Breakthrough Producer.

This week, the BIFAs will unveil more longlists of awards, which will then be voted on to create its final nominations, to be revealed on December 9.

Among the leading potential nominees are Calm With Horses, County Lines, His House and Saint Maud, with three each. Here is the first set of New Talent longlists.

The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)

ROMOLA GARAI Amulet
FRED SCOTT Being a Human Person
NICK ROWLAND Calm With Horses
HENRY BLAKE County Lines
REMI WEEKES His House
RENE VAN PANNEVIS Looted
CLAIRE OAKLEY Make Up
CATHERINE LINSTRUM Nuclear
EVA RILEY Perfect 10
BILLIE PIPER Rare Beasts
AKI OMOSHAYBI REAL
JENNIFER SHERIDAN Rose: A Love Story
ROSE GLASS Saint Maud
ANEIL KARIA Surge
RUBIKA SHAH White Riot

Best Debut Screenwriter

LUCY BRYDON Body of Water
JOSEPH MURTAGH Calm With Horses
HENRY BLAKE County Lines
REMI WEEKES His House
JED SHEPHERD, GEMMA HURLEY Host [also written by Rob Savage]
CAITLIN MORAN How to Build a Girl
RENE VAN PANNEVIS, KEFI CHADWICK Looted
CLAIRE OAKLEY Make Up
RIZ AHMED Mogul Mowgli [also written by Bassam Tariq]
EVA RILEY Perfect 10
BILLIE PIPER Rare Beasts
AKI OMOSHAYBI REAL
THERESA IKOKO, CLAIRE WILSON Rocks
MATT STOKOE Rose: A Love Story
ROSE GLASS Saint Maud

Breakthrough Producer

PHILIP HERD, THEO JAMES Archive [also produced by Cora Palfrey]
DANIEL EMMERSON Calm With Horses
VICTORIA BAVISTER, DAVID BRODER County Lines
EDWARD KING, MARTIN GENTLES His House [also produced by Aidan Elliott, Roy Lee, Arnon Milchan]
DOUGLAS COX Host [also produced by Emily Gotto, Samuel Zimmerman]
IRUNE GURTUBAI Limbo [also produced by Angus Lamont]
JENNIFER ERIKSSON, JESSIE MANGUM Looted
RAJITA SHAH Love Sarah
WILL THORNE One Man and His Shoes [also produced by Michael Marden]
JACOB THOMAS Perfect 10 [also produced by Valentina Brazzini, Bertrand Faivre]
CIARA BARRY, ROSIE CRERAR Run
OLIVER KASSMAN Saint Maud [also produced by Andrea Cornwell]
HELEN SIMMONS Say Your Prayers
SOPHIE VICKERS Surge [also produced by Julia Godzinskaya]
SOPHIE VENNER Undergods
ED GIBBS White Riot

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