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Two old friends drive through the post-industrial landscapes of South Wales investigating UFO sightings, searching for meaning in an increasingly alien world.
Documentary
Team
Tom Tennant, Director
Tom & Theo are filmmaking brothers from the UK. They’ve made films with the BBC and the BFI, and their films have screened at BAFTA qualifying festivals, as well as receiving nominations at the UKMVA’s and 1.4 Awards. Their most recent film Frontier Town was funded by BFI Doc Society and had its UK premiere at Aesthetica and its US premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Maesteg, the brothers’ first film together, was screened on BBC Four and featured on Short of the Week. Their fictional short film, Control, was selected at festivals worldwide and has over 350,000 views online. Tom’s short film, The Bechdel Test, was selected at London Short Film Festival and his 8mm film, Mamá, was selected in Straight 8’s Best 25 of 2020.
Theo Tennant, Director
Tom & Theo are filmmaking brothers from the UK. They’ve made films with the BBC and the BFI, and their films have screened at BAFTA qualifying festivals, as well as receiving nominations at the UKMVA’s and 1.4 Awards. Their most recent film Frontier Town was funded by BFI Doc Society and had its UK premiere at Aesthetica and its US premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Maesteg, the brothers’ first film together, was screened on BBC Four and featured on Short of the Week. Their fictional short film, Control, was selected at festivals worldwide and has over 350,000 views online. Theo also works as a cinematographer. He shot C4’s Grierson and BAFTA nominated docu-series Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime and the docu-fiction Black Ice, which won a wood pencil at the D&ADs. While studying Fine Art at Central St Martins Theo founded Cinema & Co - an independent cinema and art space in Swansea, Wales.
Alice Hughes, Producer
Alice is an award-winning and BIFA and Grierson-nominated producer. Her first feature Half Way led the director to be named BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2017. Her short Motherland was shortlisted for a Grierson in 2020. Another, Until The Tide Creeps In, won best of the festival at Aesthetica in 2022. Her latest, Puffling, world premiered at SXSW, won best doc at Academy Award Qualifying Aspen Shorts Fest, featured on Doc NYC’s Shortlist and was long-listed for a BIFA. Alice has had films funded twice by BFI Doc Society, The Uncertain Kingdom, Field of Vision and more, had work featured on The New Yorker, Nowness and BFI Player with multiple picks on Short of the Week and Vimeo Staff Pick. Alice was a Sheffield Doc Fest Future Producer in 2023, and is currently working on her second feature documentary, currently in post-production, which was presented at Hot Docs Dealmaker in early May 2024.
Lily Tiger, Assistant Producer
Lily is an artist-filmmaker from South-West Wales. She works across documentary film, sound, drawing and within community settings. Taking inspiration from her rural upbringing, she is interested in using documentary as a medium to engage with people’s archives, everyday stories and local environments. Her debut short film She Sells Shellfish has been screened at film festivals and galleries including Aesthetica, Sehsüchte and Saatchi Gallery.