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Harry Lighton\u2019s debut feature Pillion dominated this evening\u2019s British Independent Film Awards in London, winning four awards, including Best British Independent Film.<\/p>\n
Celia Imrie presented the award for Best British Independent Film to the Pillion team. The film tells the story of a charismatic biker who enters the life of a timid young man. Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Harry Melling star in the movie. Lighton also won Best Debut Screenwriter, and the film won in the craft categories for Best Costume Design and Best Make Up & Hair Design.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Director went to Akinola Davies Jr for his debut feature, My Father\u2019s Shadow.\u00a0Tom Basden and Tim Key won Best Screenplay for their debut feature, The Ballad of Wallis Island, a music drama about a faded folk musician and his former partner who reluctantly reunite for an eccentric fan. The pair also won Best Joint Lead Performance.<\/p>\n The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) went to Cal McMau for Wasteman. Breakthrough Producer went to Dhiraj Mahey for Ish, which was also produced by Bennett McGhee. Robert Aramayo won the Best Lead Performance award for his role as John Davison in I Swear, and Best Supporting Performance went to Jay Lycurgo for Tim Mielants\u2019s Steve.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The BIFA for Best International Independent Film went to Joaquim Trier\u2019s Sentimental Value. This year, the BIFA Special Jury Prize was presented to Warp Films by Jury members Genevieve O\u2019Reilly and Daniel Mays.<\/p>\n \u201cFor nearly 25 years, Warp Films has been the preeminent independent film and TV production company in the UK,\u201d the jury said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir commitment to telling raw and relevant stories, made by visionary writers and directors, is unflinching and uncompromising. From Dead Man\u2019s Shoes and This Is England to Adolescence and Reunion, they have proved over and over that there is a genuine hunger for stories that tell us the unvarnished truth.\u201d<\/p>\n The inaugural BIFA Cinema of the Year went to The Magic Lantern Cinema in Tywyn, Wales.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harry Lighton\u2019s debut feature Pillion dominated this evening\u2019s British Independent Film Awards in London, winning four awards, including Best British Independent Film. Celia Imrie presented the award for Best British Independent Film to the Pillion team. The film tells the story of a charismatic biker who enters the life of a timid young man. Alexander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2182143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[420425,348530,339308,380820,388487,342226,348488,397316,420424],"class_list":["post-2182142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-akinola-davies-jr","tag-alexander-skarsgard","tag-celia-imrie","tag-debut-feature","tag-harry-lighton","tag-harry-melling","tag-independent-film","tag-pillion","tag-warp-films"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/British-Independent-Film-Award-Winners-\u2018Pillion-Takes-Best-Film.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182144,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182142\/revisions\/2182144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}