Honour at LOCO festival

Mindhorn has won the Discovery Award at this year’s  LOCO London Comedy Film Festival.

Created by its stars, Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby, the film was recognised by the festival’s panel for its ‘uncompromising ambition and success as a genuinely hilarious new comedy thriller’.

Accepting the award, star Barratt said: ‘This is an honour. It was a long road to get here, but it’s been really good working with Simon all these years. Although, we don’t talk anymore since making the film…’

And director Sean Foley added: ‘We’re bowled over, because it’s totally unexpected and we’re thrilled. Mindhorn really starts with Julian and Simon, who carried this little baby of theirs for a long time.;

The competition, now in its 6th year, were created to highlight original British comedy film-makers. Mindhorn was screened at the LOCO festival on Friday, followed by a Q&A with  Barratt and Farnaby.

Festival programmer Jonathan Wakeham, said: ‘Mindhorn is an exciting indication of the direction of new British comedy filmmaking. The judging panel admired its courage in creating an original script and a new comedy character for a film with a wide release, as well as having a first time feature film director at the helm. 

‘The result is genuinely hilarious; a film made by brilliantly unique artists working on a grander scale, without compromising their artistic originality.

The other nominees for the LOCO Discovery Award were Mercedes Grower for her relationship comedy Brakes, and Harry Michell for his comedy about the trials of being a typecast actor, Chubby Funny.

The winner of the short film category was Terri Matthews for The Wrong End of The Stick. Special shorts mention goes to Gilliver Moore for Lucky Chicken.

Read our review of Mindhorn here.

Published: 8 May 2017