NDH 11 with Rebecca Johnson & Amit Gupta
A South Africa Event on 2016-04-05 19:00:00
We are thrilled that Rebecca Johnson and now Amit Gupta will be joining us for NDH 11 on Tues 5th April. Please note the venue: the event is now at London Post Production, 26 Newman Street, W1T 1PW. Rebecca's debut feature as writer/director HONEYTRAP premiered at the London Film Festival 2014, where she was nominated for the Best British Newcomer Award. It was released in the UK in May to widespread critical acclaim. HONEYTRAP had its US premiere at SXSW in 2015. Rebecca's 2009 multi award-winning short TOP GIRL, played at more than thirty festivals including Berlin, Rotterdam and Clermont Ferrand, and both films came out of more than a decade making films with young people in her local community of Brixton. Rebecca is currently developing a female-led historical action film and a US-set TV project. She is also attached to UNDERNEATH, a million female-led action thriller, set on a diamond trawler off the coast of South Africa. Links: HONEYTRAP trailer: http://goo.gl/AgcsPE HONEYTRAP Guardian Review – Film of the Week: http://goo.gl/5jaadR On BBC News: https://vimeo.com/110561060 Amit Gupta is a writer and director for theatre, film and television. His first feature, RESISTANCE, starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen, was nominated for three BAFTAs, Best First Feature by Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the CineVision Award at Munich. His second feature, JADOO, a drama comedy adapted from his own BBC Radio 4 play, premiered in Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival 2013 and has played in over 35 international festivals. It was released theatrically in the UK in September 2013. Amit is a former winner of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers’ Competition. His stage plays include OPTION which premiered at London’s Tricycle Theatre and CAMPAIGN, part of the Olivier Award nominated and Liberty Human Rights Award winning THE GREAT GAME, which toured the US in 2010/11. He recently completed his latest feature, ONE CRAZY THING, which is being released theatrically in the US later this year and in the UK in 2016. He will be directing a feature adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day' which will shoot in 2016. Resistance trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vuNkBV6jM 'Loaded with tension, masterfully performed' **** Time Out One Crazy Thing trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6tcWKTlKxU
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26 Newman Street
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