Harry Lighton’s debut feature Pillion dominated this evening’s 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 Skarsgård 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.

Best Director went to Akinola Davies Jr for his debut feature, My Father’s Shadow . Tom 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

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