The official synopsis for
Censor reads: Britain, 1985. When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister s mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest that will blur the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways. Steeped in glorious 1980s aesthetics,
Censor is a bloody love letter to the VHS video nasty horror classics of the past.
Alongside Algar, the film also stars Michael Smiley (
Jawbone, Kill List), Vincent Franklin (
Gentleman Jack, Bodyguard), Nicholas Burns (
Ghost Stories, Nathan Barley), Adrian Schiller (
Victoria, The Last Kingdom) and Sophia La Porta (Hulu s
A first-look image has been released of Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond’s Sundance 2021 Official Selection
CENSOR, which stars multiple-IFTA-winning actor Niamh Algar as the film’s lead Enid, and will open the Festival’s Midnight strand.
CENSOR is set in Britain in 1985. When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister’s mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest that will blur the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways.
Steeped in glorious 1980s aesthetics, the film is said to be a bloody love letter to the VHS ‘video nasty’ horror classics of the past…
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The indie film showcase s pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary.
As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson s reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers.
For Jackson, the focus on debut feature directors underlines how, despite the COVID-19 crisis pausing film production in Hollywood and upending planning for Sundance s upcoming Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, 2021, edition, the marquee festival isn t playing it safe as it doubles down on revealing new independent voices to the world.
Together
Together starring Ed Helms
are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes
One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to
Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary
The Sparks Brothers
Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror
In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary
Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection
Life In A Day 2020.
A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020:
Pascual Sisto’s