Raindance Festival has an illustrious history of filmmaking introductions, bringing audiences seminal, cinematic experiences from Memento and Pulp Fiction, to The Blair Witch Project. For the debut feature of Deadbeat Studios, ‘Swede Caroline’, it’s a distinguished list to be counted amongst.
Whilst Deadbeat Films have been making a name for themselves in the world of commercials and music videos, the introduction of screenwriter and comedy director Brook Driver as creative director, as well as the arrival of Sundance winning producer Anthony Toma as head of production, has pushed forward their jump into features. With Swede Caroline being their first hilarious offering.
With a stellar cast, including Jo Hartley, Aisling Bea, Celyn Jones and Richard Lumsden, the debut film for directors Brook Driver and Finn Bruce combines, in the words of Raindance programmers, “the rural rage of Mike Leigh’s Nuts In May and Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers with a touch of Chris Morris absurdism.”
Swede Caroline will be screening to its first 250 audience members at the Soho Curzon on the 31st of October.