The 2015 Gotham Awards, celebrating the year’s best in independent film, were held in New York on Monday. Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight was the night’s big winner, receiving Best Feature, Best Screenplay and a special jury award for Ensemble Cast Performance. See the full list of winners and nominees here.
Tessa Ross
A roundup of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: Story centers on a neurosurgeon who upon an interaction with a violent and troubled man, begins to ponder and question his life choices up to that moment.
Logline: 17-year-old Jules sets out on a journey of discovery.
Logline: A lonely department store employee befriends a housewife in the middle of a divorce and the two set out across the country while being pursued by a private investigator hired by a jealous ex-husband.
Logline: A British couple is thrust into the world of espionage and the mafia after befriending a Russian with an intent to defect.
Logline: Story centers on a former teen dance prodigy who attempts a comeback years after a rival ruined his career.
Logline: A young musician finds himself in over-his-head when he joins an indie rock band led by an eccentric musician who always wears a large fake head.
Logline: Story follows a screenwriter struggling for inspiration for his script who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends, only for things to take a turn for the worse when a gangster’s mutt goes missing.
Logline: Follows a British banker who tries to help a young Muslim immigrant targeted by the U.S., British and German secret services after he is taken in by a Turkish family in Germany.
Logline: Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer, Jay, is pressured by his partner, Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark, disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again – his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness.
Logline: A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.
Logline: Set in Roman Britain in the second century AD, the story follows a young Roman officer, Marcus Flavius Aquila, trying to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father’s legion in northern Britain.
Logline: An alien assumes the guise of a beautiful woman who roams the Scottish Highlands preying on hitchhikers.
