Our Introducing… slot is a space for discovery and collaboration at Screening Days. With it, we aim to bring you films beyond the release calendar that you may not yet be aware of, but which may connect you to new audiences in your communities.
For our second edition we are thrilled to present highly acclaimed, award-winning works from filmmakers Abraham Adeyemi, Fateme Ahmadi, Vinnie Ann Bose, Jessie Currie, Joseph Douglas Elmhirst and Asmita Shrish. These shorts will be available to watch singly or together on our online platform throughout Virtual Screening Days.
With many thanks to all the filmmakers and to our programme advisors: film producer and programmer Qila Gill; Alex Usborne of 104 Films; Caroline Wilson of UNDR LNDN; and Jonathan Ali and Lisa Harewood of the Twelve30 Collective.
The films
No More Wings
Dir: Abraham Adeyemi | UK | 2019 | 10:35 mins
At a divergent point in their lives, two lifelong friends (Ivanno Jeremiah, Parys Jordon) meet at their favourite South London fried chicken shop. Writer-director Abraham Adeyemi’s Oscar-longlisted short drama is a fraught but affectionate portrait of the friendship between two men, now at a crossroads in life as they face shattered dreams, hard-won successes and changing lives.
Booking enquiries to Abraham Adeyemi.
What Is Your Brown Number?
Dir: Vinnie Ann Bose | India | 2015 | 4:31 mins
In this film, every person is born with a respective brown number that corresponds to the shade of their skin. Darker the shade, higher the brown number, lower the worth. What is your Brown Number? is a humorous depiction of the Indian obsession with fair skin and their prejudices regarding skin colour.
Booking enquiries to Vinnie Ann Bose.
Chandra
Dir: Fateme Ahmadi, Asmita Shrish | Nepal | 2015 | 15 mins
Little Chandra walks through earthquake-hit Kathmandu with his grandfather, to visit his mother and newborn sibling in the hospital. What awaits them at the end?
Booking enquiries to Fateme Ahmadi and Asmita Shrish.
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Introverse
Dir: Jessie Currie | UK | 2017 | 4:13 mins
Looking inwards and reaching out at the same time. In all its sensory nuance and with an inherently nurturing voice the film is an offering in itself. To the quest for growth and also to the family she so clearly adores.
Introverse is one of eight films made on the Different Voices 2 Project, a neurodiverse film talent development programme. The project is a biggerhouse film production for 104 Films supported by Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund, with BFI’s Film Forever National Lottery fund in association with the Arnolfini.
Booking enquiries to Jessie Currie.
Mada
Dir: Joseph Douglas Elmhirst | Jamaica | 2020 | 19:16 mins
Mada follows three days in the life of a young mother named Faith (Asoya Smith), her mother, Ethel (Brenda Farmer) and Faith’s son, Luther (Xavier Alexander Keating) living in rural Jamaica, where isolation carries its own sound. As the narrative unfolds, a simmering conflict over Luther surfaces and we are offered insight into two mother’s conflicting natures and notions about love and protection.
Booking enquiries to Joseph Douglas Elmhurst.
