At the BFI’s biannual fundraising gala LUMINOUS last night, Oscar-winning actor, BFI Fellow and CHANEL Ambassador Tilda Swinton presented the BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity.
As part of the awards jury, Tilda joined her fellow jurors on stage to present the three UK filmmakers with a prize of £20,000 each, selected for their creative audacity and their ambition to explore a new dynamic to their practice. The winning filmmakers of the third annual awards are:
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Luna Carmoon, writer/director (Hoard)
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Pinny Grylls, writer/director (co-writer/co-director Grand Theft Hamlet)
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Naqqash Khalid writer/director (In Camera)
Guests in attendance include industry stars and luminaries Hugh Grant, Steve McQueen, Lashana Lynch, Alfonso Cuarón, Naomi Ackie, Josh O’Connor, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Daisy Edgar-jones and Felicity Jones with event hosts BFI Chair Jay Hunt and BFI Chief Executive Ben Roberts, there to raise vital funds for the BFI National Archive…