Screenwriter-directors Daniel Kokotajlo (Starve Acre, Apostasy) and Luna Carmoon (Hoard) discuss their approaches to filmmaking, hosted by Abla Kandalaft.

Daniel Kokotajlo’s latest film Starve Acre is a psychological horror starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark for BBC Films and House Productions. His first feature Apostasy — about a young mother’s struggle to leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses — was nominated for a string of awards (6 BIFAS, and a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut Film 2019), and won the London Film Festival IWC Bursary for Outstanding First Feature in 2019. Apostasy was made on the micro-budget scheme for IFeatures, and was subsequently released by Artificial Eye — where it went on to gross $500,000 at the UK box office — and was bought by Amazon for the US. Daniel is developing a few original feature projects in the UK. He has been selected as both a Screen Star of Tomorrow and by BAFTA as a Breakthrough Brit.

Luna Carmoon is a self-taught writer/director from South East London. An original, provocative voice, her writing conjures oddness out of the familiar, and is inspired by 60’s and 70’s British cinema. Her feature debut Hoard was released this year and screened at the Garden Cinema. That, along with her short films Nosebleed (2018) and Shagband (2020), are currently streaming on MUBI.

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Recorded on 12th December at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ