The British Film Institute and Chanel have named their latest crop of winners for the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards. The third annual awards — presented to three rising U.K.
directors, with a prize of £20,000 ($26,000) to each — went to Luna Carmoon, writer/director of “Hoard” (which bowed in Venice last year), Pinny Grylls, co-writer/co-director of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” and Naqqash Khalid writer/director of “In Camera.” The three were selected by a jury made up of Tilda Swinton , British Vogue editorial advisor Edward Enninful, Le Cinema Club founder Marie-Louise Khondji and BFI chief executive Ben Roberts. “The three films we have had the honour to spotlight this year represent — with urgency and accuracy — some of the core values the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards were set up to encourage: self-determination, a reflection on untold life experience and a boundaryless curiosity about the capacities of filmmaking itself, regardless of any limitation,” said Swinton.
“The teams that brought these projects into harbour were all galvanised and led by the sort of practical and inspirational attitude that makes ground-breaking possible in the first place. We honour these individuals tonight and look forward with real eagerness to their road ahead.” The awards were announced at a star-studded event held in London’s Roundhouse, attended by some of the biggest names in the industry and accompanied by an auction raising money for the BFI National Archive.
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