Harry Lighton’s BDSM drama Pillion was given the top prize at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. Winning Best British Independent Film, the film – which stars Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård and was funded by the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund, also won Best Debut Screenwriter for Lighton and two craft categories: Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hair Design.
A Want in Her, Myrid Carten’s documentary about her search for her missing mother, won three awards: Best Feature Documentary, Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary, and The Raindance Maverick Award. A Want in Her was funded by the BFI Doc Society Fund.
Best Director went to Akinola Davies Jr for My Father’s Shadow, his tale of two brothers exploring 1990s Lagos with their father. My Father’s Shadow was also supported by the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund.
Other winning films supported by the BFI are Ish, for which Dhiraj Mahey was named Best Breakthrough Producer; Lollipop, which won Best Breakthrough Performance for Posy Sterling, and Magid / Zafar, which won Best British Short Film…
