Days of the Bagnold Summer

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Days of the Bagnold Summer

Days of the Bagnold Summer

Director: Simon Bird

Script: Lisa Owens

Photography: Simon Tindall

Editor: Ashley White

Music: Belle & Sebastian

Cast: Monica Dolan, Earl Cave, Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe, Elliot Speller-Gillott

Production: Stigma Film Production

Distribution: The Festival Agency – Altitude Film Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Year: 2019

Length: 86’

 

Adapted from the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold summer is a tender, funny coming-of-age story about single parenting and heavy metal.  Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his dad and his dad’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies and pursue their personal passions.

 

Simon Bird. Simon’s first short film, Ernestine and Kit, premiered at South By Southwest, and was nominated for Best Short at the Irish Film and Television Awards.  Previously, Simon has worked as a stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actor. As a writer, he created The King Is Dead for the BBC and co-created Chickens for Sky, which was nominated for Best Sitcom at the Broadcast Awards. As a producer, he set up Guilty Party Pictures, a TV and film production company backed by RED and Studiocanal. Guilty Party has produced content for Channel 4, Sky and the BBC, and recently wrapped on How Europe Stole My Mum, an original TV show for Channel 4, to air later this year.  As an actor, Simon has starred in five series of Rose D’Or-winning sitcom Friday Night Dinner. The sixth series shoots later this year. He is perhaps best known as Will McKenzie from Channel 4’s BAFTAwinning sitcom , The Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners Movie, which is the highest-grossing comedy film ever in the UK, and The Inbetweeners 2, which had the highest-grossing opening weekend of any film in the UK in 2014. Simon has won multiple British Comedy Awards and been nominated for a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for acting.