Keith and David Lynch put character Combo's racist diatribe in the mouth of a rightwing politician in their winning entry
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A reimagining of the racist speech by Stephen Graham's menacing Combo in This Is England has won top prize in a Film4 hunt for new film-making talent.
Directors Keith and David Lynch, who go by the name "the Brothers Lynch", retooled the soliloquy from Shane Meadow's 80s drama as a polemic spoken by a rightwing politician arguing against illegal aliens. The siblings win a £5,000 development grant and mentoring to develop an original short film project.
The talent hunt, titled Scene Stealers, asked amateur film-makers to borrow from Film 4 productions over the years. The winners were selected by a jury of film-makers and industry executives, including Bafta-winning film-maker Asif Kapadia, Bafta-nominated film-makers Lone Scherfig and Joe Cornish, film journalist and critic Charles Gant,...
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A reimagining of the racist speech by Stephen Graham's menacing Combo in This Is England has won top prize in a Film4 hunt for new film-making talent.
Directors Keith and David Lynch, who go by the name "the Brothers Lynch", retooled the soliloquy from Shane Meadow's 80s drama as a polemic spoken by a rightwing politician arguing against illegal aliens. The siblings win a £5,000 development grant and mentoring to develop an original short film project.
The talent hunt, titled Scene Stealers, asked amateur film-makers to borrow from Film 4 productions over the years. The winners were selected by a jury of film-makers and industry executives, including Bafta-winning film-maker Asif Kapadia, Bafta-nominated film-makers Lone Scherfig and Joe Cornish, film journalist and critic Charles Gant,...
- 8/24/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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