UK film-makers such as Molly Manning Walker, Charlotte Regan and Luna Carmoon are part of a new wave taking top awards at the film festivals‘Stuff happened, you know?’ How to Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker on wild youth, Magaluf and storming CannesYou haven’t imagined it.
What started out as a trickle of fresh talent into the British film industry just a few years ago has gathered momentum into a fully fledged new wave.
First features from British film-makers have triumphed at international film festivals, and they have also found engaged and receptive audiences in cinemas.
Recent box office successes include Charlotte Wells’s indie phenomenon Aftersun and Scrapper, which fought its corner impressively against the Barbenheimer juggernaut.So what’s behind it all? Certainly, a push to diversify the range of voices within the industry has had a considerable effect, with women and people of colour…
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