Nowhere Boy selected for SUNDANCE Festival

Nowhere Boy selected for SUNDANCE festival and Anne-Marie Duff wins a BIFA for Best Supporting Actress.

Sam Taylor Wood’s Nowhere Boy has been selected by Sundance from a record number of films submitted from around the world.

Nowhere Boy is the debut feature from renowned British artist/director Sam Taylor Wood, written by BAFTA-winner Matthew Greenhalgh (Control).

Set in Liverpool in 1955, the film sheds light on the early years of Lennon (Aaron Johnson), who since the age of five has been raised by his controlling Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas). When he learns that his mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff) lives only a mile away, he meets her and is instantly bewitched by her vitality and love of rock’n’roll. Nowhere Boy will receive its US premiere at Sundance Film Festival.

Nowhere Boy is an Ecosse Films production in association with Northwest Vision and Media, Film4, the UK Film Council, Lip Sync Productions and Aver Media. Icon Film Distribution will release the film in the UK on 26 December 2009. HanWay Films is selling international rights and The Weinstein Company has US rights.

This came in the same week that Anne-Marie Duff won a British Independent Film Award for best supporting actress.