Bobbie Cousins
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Director Luna Carmoon
Cast Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires
Producer Andy Starke, Loran Dunn, Helen Simmons
Production Company Delaval Film; Erebus Pictures; BFI; Anti-Worlds; BBC Film
Nominated Bifa for Best Production Design
Festivals:
Venice Film Festival:
- The Audience Award
- Award for most innovative film
- Special Mention to Saura Lightfoot Leon for her performance
- Female Authors Under 40 Valentina Pedicini Award for direction and screenplay
Athens International Film Festival:
- Award for Best Screenplay
LFF:
- Nominee for first feature competition
Seminci:
- Nominee for Meeting point best feature competition
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival:
- Nominee for International Feature Competition
Valadolid:
- Nominee for Best Feature Film
Cambridge Film Festival:
- Selected for International Festival Highlights
Hoard was also selected in ‘Venezia a Napoli,’ ‘JIO Mumbai Film Festival,’ ‘Cairo International Film Festival.’ ‘Goteborg Film Festival,’ ‘Istanbul Film Festival,’ ‘Melbourne International Film Festival’ and ‘Munchen International Film Festivals.’
Reviews:
Hayley Squires and Joseph Quinn Time Out Interview
Variety Article - Venice Premiere
The Upcoming - Director and Cast Interview
The Upcoming - Director Interview
Quotes:
Peter Bradshaw from ‘The Guardian:’
“A social realist psychodrama of amour fou here in this fiercely intense and often macabre tale from feature first-timer Luna Carmoon”
Wendy Ide from ‘Screen Daily:’
“This visceral first feature from Luna Carmoon is, like its central character, unfettered, uninhibited and bracingly unusual.”
Robbie Collins from ‘The Telegraph:’
“Most exciting of all, though, is its sense of promise: like every great first feature, Hoard makes you desperate to see what else its maker’s mind has in it. Though in Carmoon’s case, that mind should probably be approached with caution, and a long pointy stick”
Josh Slater Williams from ‘Indie Wire:’
“That rare thing nowadays of a genuinely audacious, unnerving British debut”
