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Ben Lankester
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writer/director • film & tv @unitedagents.bsky.social • DELIVERY — BIFA Nominated Best British Short 2024 • IG https://instagram.com/ben.lankester • Letterboxd https://boxd.it/2rKN7 👋🏼
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DELIVERY (Trailer)

Nominee - Best British Short Film
British Independent Film Awards 2024

Winner - Best Short Film
British Short Film Awards 2024

vimeo.com/1004546318
'DELIVERY' (Trailer)
Nominee - Best British Short Film British Independent Film Awards 2024 Winner - Best Short Film & Best Actress British Short Film Awards 2024 Winner - Best…
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@lffstubs.bsky.social I’m selling one #LFF ticket for Hlynur Pálmason’s THE LOVE THAT REMAINS on Friday 10 October at 20:40 in NFT 1. Face value £18
September 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@lffstubs.bsky.social I have an #lff2025 ticket to THE LOVE THAT REMAINS on Friday 10 October at 20:40. NFT 1, C11. Face value £18 #LFF
September 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
DELIVERY (Trailer)

Nominee - Best British Short Film
British Independent Film Awards 2024

Winner - Best Short Film
British Short Film Awards 2024

vimeo.com/1004546318
'DELIVERY' (Trailer)
Nominee - Best British Short Film British Independent Film Awards 2024 Winner - Best Short Film & Best Actress British Short Film Awards 2024 Winner - Best…
vimeo.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Please consider backing ‘The A24 New Wave’, a new book from the brilliant @awest505.bsky.social of @cinejourneys.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this 💜

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
The A24 New Wave - A New Book from Aaron West & Jill Blake
A new book by Aaron West and edited by Jill Blake about the film company that has challenged the status quo and achieved success.
www.kickstarter.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Having received the first volume, I’ve put together a list of the films collected in the two Chantal Akerman boxsets from the BFI.

boxd.it/CdsC2
Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 1 - 1967-1978 / Volume 2 - 1982-2015
A list of 22 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Examen d'entrée INSAS (1967), Blow Up My Town (1968), The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman (1971), The Room (1972) and Hotel Monte...
boxd.it
February 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Very proud moment for me, seeing the trailer for my first feature as producer go up online. Please share, and please come and see the film!
ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team

Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling)

The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.
February 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I loved talking to Directors Notes about the making of DELIVERY — the inception of the project, my approach to craft and my process with our amazing collaborators.

A huge thanks to @sezonlyknows.bsky.social for the interview.
Dir. @benlankester.bsky.social details the multi-tiered approach to sound design that immerses audiences in the frantic intensity of his #BIFA2024 nominated film 'Delivery' a maternity ward set drama depicting the most challenging shift of a newly-qualified midwife directorsnotes.com/2024/12/02/b...
Delivery by Ben Lankester // Drama Short Film // Directors Notes
Ben Lankester details the multi-tiered sound design that immerses audiences into the frantic intensity of his BIFA nominated maternity ward drama short.
directorsnotes.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Fancy your own Powell & Pressburger festival? Currently on/heading to BBC iPlayer are I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING!, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP and P&P doc MADE IN ENGLAND. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH and THE RED SHOES join from Sat. But see thread for links to other P&P joy available in the UK
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November 20, 2024 at 6:18 PM
DELIVERY has been nominated for Best British Short at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards.

Thank you BIFA for this incredible moment in the journey of our film 💙
November 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM