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Photos from top l-r: DP Sean Bobbitt BSC, Michael Fassbender & Liam Cunningham, and Director Steve McQueen on the set of Hunger; Samantha Morton in The Daisy Chain; Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky; Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire and
DP Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC; Max von Sydow and Mathieu Almaric in The Diving Bell And The Butterfly; Kelly Reilly in Eden Lake
ore than 60 years after the Mfirst ever Royal Film Per-
formance – A Matter Of Life And Death - in 1946, A Bunch Of Amateurs, starring Burt
Reynolds, Imelda Staunton, Saman- tha Bond and Sir Derek Jacobi, was the latest in a regal line of celluloid raising funds for the Cinema & Tele- vision Benevolent Fund.
Screened before HRH The Queen at the Odeon, Leicester Square on November 17, the comedy of Anglo-American cultural confu- sion, directed by Andy Cadiff, was shot by Ashley Rowe BSC.
A Bunch Of Amateurs was originated on 16mm Fujicolor ETERNA Vivid 160T 8643 and ETERNA 250D 8663
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Photos l-r: DP Ashley Rowe BSC setting up a shot with Burt Reynolds; Imelda Staunton, Burt Reynolds and Sir Derek Jacobi
FESTIVALS & EVENTS
o fewer than nine films origi- Nnated on Fujifilm – Hunger
(seven), Slumdog Millionaire (six), Shifty (five), Happy-Go- Lucky (three) Eden Lake (two),
The Daisy Chain (one), Telstar (one), The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (one) and Clubbed (one) – snared twenty- six 2008 British Independent Film Award nominations between them.
In Best Technical Achievement, DPs Sean Bobbitt BSC and Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC were singled out for, respectively, Hunger and Slumdog Millionaire.
Hunger and Slumdog were both also cited for Best British Independ- ent Film, while Shifty and Telstar, fig- ured in the quintet for Best Achievement in Production.
Michael Fassbender (Hunger) and Riz Ahmed (Shifty) were named for the Best Actor, with Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Liam Cunningham (Hunger) and Daniel Mays (Shifty) vying for Best Supporting Actor.
Eden Lake’s James Watkins and Steve McQueen (Hunger) were up for The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director.
Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake), Saman- tha Morton (The Daisy Chain), and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) each earned a Best Actress nod, while Slumdog’s Dev Patel and Ayush Mahesh Khedakar featured in the Best Supporting Actor category.
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
was in the shakedown for Best Foreign Film, with Clubbed up for the Raindance Award.
Meanwhile, at the Toronto Film Festival, Hunger won the Diesel Discovery Award This was decided by the Festival press corps, which consists of 1000 international media. The award offers a $10,000 cash prize and a custom award sponsored by DIESEL Canada. Slumdog Million- aire won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award.
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