When Chris Morris’s name was announced as winner of the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut last night, who was it but Adeel Akhtar, along with his Four Lions co-star Nigel Lindsay, who accepted the award on his behalf.
Click here to see a backstage video interview with Adeel and Nigel Lindsay: www.bit.ly/4LionsBaftaBackstage
Following Thursday’s Grand Jury Prize win at Slamdance, Filmmaker Magazine has spotlighted Stranger Things in the “Park City Critic’s Notebook.”
Filmmaker’s Bradon Harris describes the film as “elegant and evocative” and “as tranquil and refreshing as an autumn afternoon along the rural British coast.”
We’re so pleased to announce that Stranger Things has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival! The award ceremony took place last night at the Treasure Mountain Inn in Park City in the main screening room. We were awarded a “Sparky” — Slamdance’s bronze dog-shaped award. Best documentary went to Bhopali by Van Maximillian Carlson.
Ron and I are delighted and very grateful to the jury, to Slamdance and to everyone who has helped us along the way. Thanks to all of you for the messages of support.
Click here to read the press release about the Slamdance Awards in Variety.
Click here to read the Indiewire press release about the awards.
We are excited to announce that Stranger Things has received a great review from Variety. Adeel Akhtar and Bridget Collins receive praise for their intelligent performances and the film is called delicate, dignified and soulful. Here’s an extract:
Shot on the English seaside and with a Dreyer-esque instinct for the complexity and frankness of the human face, the pic is essentially a two-hander, its action muted and its pretensions modest. At the same time, its theme — the capacity of the heart to make connections, under odd and unlikely circumstances — harbors something titanic. Much of this is conveyed via the directors’ appreciation for revealing detail, and eloquent gesture.
We’ve arrived in frosty Park City, Utah and are busy getting everything ready for Slamdance. We checked in at Filmmaker Registration this morning and put up our posters at the Treasure Mountain Inn a.k.a Slamdance HQ. We were there early and so were able to nab a great spot.
Lindsay MacKay, our production manager on Stranger Things, is here with us to join in the fun and to help us keep on top of everything at the festival.
Our first screening is tomorrow at 12:30pm. We hope to see you there! Click here for more info.
A huge THANK YOU to our supporters, fans, cast and crew for your support over the last year. It’s been a very exciting period for us with the film and we’re looking forward to continuing the adventure in the new year. There’s much more to come.
Our first act of 2011 is to improve our mailing list. Please join the special Stranger Things Newsletter using the form below. We’ll keep you posted with fresh developments as they happen.
Our second act is to discard of the props and costumes we’ve been storing in my family home since the shoot. Adeel can finally have his trousers back! Most of the rest is off to the charity shop.
Happy New Year everyone!
Great news! Stranger Things will be screening in competition at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival.
You may remember that our short Ruth & Maggie (which also starred Bridget Collins and Victoria Jeffrey) premiered at Slamdance in 2006. We had an amazing time there and are delighted to return with our feature.
The festival takes place January 21-27 in snowy Park City, Utah. Stranger Things is one of ten narrative features in competition at the festival. This year Slamdance received a record breaking 5,000 submissions, of which fewer than 100 films were selected to screen.
Here’s the official IndieWIRE press release. For more information go to www.slamdance.com. We will post our screening times as soon as we have them.
Chris Morris’s controversial comedy Four Lions is opening in cinemas in select cities in the US this Friday, including the Angelika in New York. Our very own Adeel Akhtar is hilarious in the film as Faisal, the most hapless of suicide bombers. Four Lions recently received five nominations for the British Independent Film Awards.
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Click here to see the Four Lions Trailer.
Stranger Things has won the Best Feature Narrative Award at the 11th Woodstock Film Festival. Last night at the Maverick Award Ceremony at the BSP Studios, Kingston, the film was honoured alongside documentary Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg). Bruce Beresford received the 2010 Honorary Maverick Award, Keanu Reeves the Excellence in Acting Award and the Trailblazer Award went to Bob Berney. Our NYU classmate, Luke Matheney won Best Student Short Film for God of Love.
We were up against such outstanding competition in the narrative picture category and we’re gobsmacked to have won. Big thanks to all of our friends, family and supporters who helped make this film possible. Congrats to our cast and crew, with whom we share the award. Thanks also to Meira Blaustein, Laurent Retjo and everyone else at the Woodstock Film Festival. We’ve had a fantastic time here.
Our final screening at WFF takes place this afternoon at 1:30pm at Upstate Films Woodstock on Tinker Street. There will be a Q&A after the screening.
Read about all the winners and honorable mentions in the indieWIRE Press Release.
You can get your ticket for the Woodstock screenings of Stranger Things online today and read about our film in the official Woodstock 2010 program, which is now online on the WFF website: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010/details.php?id=21697
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