Beverly Films Wins Independent Film Award @beverlyfilm |

The 12th London Independent Film Festival announced its 2015 awards, concluding an 11-day festival which showcased the best of low-budget filmmaking from the UK and abroad.

Director Alexander Thomas took the UK Short Film Prize at LIFF for his film BEVERLEY, produced by Cass Pennant for Urban Edge Films.

The film explores British identity through the perspective of a mixed race female (Laya Lewis) with 2-Tone music as the cultural backdrop to the film. That identity is a uniquely British incarnation of a ‘Rude Girl’, a term that originated from 1960s Jamaican street culture and is also strongly linked to fans of ska music. Vicky McClure (This is England, Line of Duty, Broadchurch) Winston Ellis (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight) and Kieran Hardcastle (This is England, Wish 143) also star.

Festival Director Erich Schultz said: “Another year of absolutely fantastic low-budget films from around the world. I’m certain we’ll be seeing many great things from these filmmakers in the very near future”
Hosted at annually at the Shortwave and Genesis cinemas in downtown London, the 2015 London Independent Film Festival screened over 60 films. The festival highlights the best in low & micro-budget filmmaking every April and has been called: “A treasure trove of undiscovered cinematic gem and one of Europe’s top indie film fests” (British Film Magazine).