LEAVE TO REMAIN // Bruce Goodison // UK // RT 89 // Drama
SUN 10/5 // Doors Open 12:00pm // Film starts at 12:30pm
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Omar, a charismatic Afghan teenager, is at the precarious juncture of having his refugee status decided, when the arrival of a boy from back home threatens to change everything. Forced into a position where the outcome may be the difference between life and death, his only options are to tell the unbelievable truth or to tell a good story? For Omar, and thousands like him, who arrive alone and scared to our shores each year, the asylum system is a cruel game of chance.
Based on real-life stories, Leave to Remain is a coming of age drama that depicts a world hidden from view. Featuring a soundtrack from the hottest band of the year, Mercury Music Prize and Novello Award-winners Alt-J, this provocative debut feature from BAFTA winner Bruce Goodison, is brought to life by powerful performances from an ensemble cast of emerging talent, young refugees and acclaimed actor, Toby Jones.
BRUCE GOODISON - WRITER & DIRECTOR
Voted Broadcast magazine’s top 10 Mover and Shaker in 2012, Bruce is one of the United Kingdom’s most exciting and successful documentary and drama Directors. Bruce’s latest TV Film, MY MURDER, based on the real life story of a teenage honey trap killing. It won Best Single drama in the 2012 Broadcast Awards.
Bruce’s BAFTA winning film OUR WAR, a story of the Afghan conflict told from the perspective of the British soldiers, received both critical and commercial success. By public demand the series was moved from BBC3 to BBC1. It was also nominated for an RTS Award.
In 2008 Bruce directed Kenneth Branagh and Juliet Stevenson in the acclaimed series TEN DAYS TO WAR. His drama- documentary, FLIGHT 93: THE FLIGHT THAT FOUGHT BACK, was Emmy nominated for Best TV movie and BRINKS MAT: THE GREATEST HEIST was nominated for a BAFTA. SAS: IRANIAN EMBASSY SEIGE won the Grierson Award for the Best Historical Documentary in 2003.
He has recently completed NIGHTSHIFT starring Ashley Walters and Danny Mayes, which will go out in 2014 as part of the Sky’s Playhouse Presents series.
‘Leave to Remain’ is Bruce’s debut fictional feature film.
CAST & CREW:
- Written & Directed by Bruce Goodison
- Produced by Kate Cook
- Co Producer James Levison
- Executive Producer Pippa Cross
- Soundtrack Alt-J
- Director of Photography Felix Wiedemann
- Production Designer Chris Richmond
- Editor Andrew Hulme
- Costume Designer Emma Fryer
- Hair & Make Up Designer Natasha Nikolic-Dunlop
- Casting Directors Gemma Hancock & Sam Stevenson
- Additional Editing Gavin Buckley
- First Assistant Director Phill Reeves
- Sound Recordist Mitch Low