, the intimate and scarring portrait of a young mother’s experience of the Syrian civil war, has scored Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards ceremony in London.The film’s three awards announced this evening were added to the previously announced win for Best Editing. Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts direct the Channel4 and PBS Frontline feature, which has played at festivals the world over.
won him the Best Actor award – his second after 2017’s win for his role in Francis Lee’s Yorkshire-set love story. The film’s director Harry Wootliff was named Best Debut Director sponsored by Kodak & Pinewood. Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for her performance as Judy Garland in Rupert Goold’s critically-acclaimed biopic,Sam Adewunmi was named Most Promising Newcomer for his first significant performance in a British feature film, Shola Amoo’s. In the film he plays Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage struggling to adjust to a new life in London. His co-star Ruthxjiah Bellenea received the award for Best Supporting Actress.
Writer Emma Jane Unsworth won the award for Debut Screenwriter sponsored by Film4 for her big-screen adaptation of her second novel,, which stars Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat as a pair of hedonistic, hard-partying best friends whose lives begin to change as they enter their 30s.. Written and directed by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, the movie follows Martin, a fisherman without a boat struggling to survive in a changing economy.
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