Full Fat LGBTQ+ film earns two Birmingham Film Festival nominations
Sasha Wilkins earns a Birmingham Film Festival nomination for the dance music score to Full Fat, a queer short from Louisa Connolly-Burnham.
Queer short Full Fat has earned two Birmingham Film Festival nominations for Best Original Score and Best Sound Design. The recognition follows success at Wimbledon and SaFlicks for its story of friendship, desire and unequal feelings.
Directed by Louisa Connolly-Burnham and written by Cara Mahoney, the film stars Harmony Rose Bremner, Mahoney and Bobby Lockwood. Grace and Bels live together and have slept together, but Grace is queer and in love with Bels, who identifies as straight and has a new boyfriend.
Their shared home leaves Grace little space to escape her feelings. The story explores the emotional consequences when the same encounter means something different to each person involved.
Composer Sasha Wilkins’s nominated score draws on electronic dance music influences including Chicane and Eric Prydz. She also plans to release the soundtrack on streaming services and develop an extended remix EP.
Connolly-Burnham won Best London Filmmaker at Wimbledon International Short Film Festival, while Full Fat was runner-up for Best Short at SaFlicks. Mahoney received a Best Supporting Performance nomination at Women X, adding to the screenplay’s earlier award wins.
Birmingham’s awards ceremony takes place on 14 November.
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Image sources: Full Fat / @fullfatfilm. SaFlicks award artwork: @safflicks / @fullfatfilm.
