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Showcase: Skeletons
Supported feature film Skeletons is the latest in a long line of outstanding and distinctive films to receive the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 2010).
Produced by Paul Welsh of Edge City Films (Glasgow) and Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of Forward Films (London), Skeletons is a surreal and distinctly British comedy about a pair of travelling salesmen in the business of cleaning skeletons from people's psychic closets.
The Michael Powell Award, sponsored by the UK Film Council, is renowned for discovering talent and celebrating creativity in filmmaking with previous winners including Moon (Duncan Jones), Somers Town (Shane Meadows) and Control (Anton Corbijn).
Writer-director Nick Whitfield assembled a strong talented cast for his first low-budget feature, including Jason Isaacs (Green Zone, the Harry Potter series), Paprika Steen (Festen) and cult theatre and stand up comedy double act Andrew Buckley and Ed Gaughan.
As part of the New British Cinema Quarterly project pioneered by Soda Pictures, Skeletons will tour UK cinemas in Summer 2010, with screenings accompanied by Q&As from the filmmakers.
View the trailer online here or visit the website www.skeletonsthemovie.com.
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