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The 2012 feature film Shell by the award-winning Scottish filmmaker Scott Graham will be screened for the first time in Malta on Saturday at 6.30pm at the auditorium of the University’s Valletta campus in St Paul’s Street.
The film will be introduced by the director himself, who will be in Malta from today to May 9 as a guest of the University’s Faculty of Arts, where he will be teaching filmmaking to MA in Film Studies students.
Supported by the British Film Institute’s Film Fund, Shell premiered at the 2012 San Sebastian Film Festival and was selected for the 56th BFI London Film Festival.
It went on to win the Best Film and Best Screenplay award at the Torino Film Festival in 2012 and Best First Film at the Brussels European Film Festival in 2013. It also won the 2013 British Independent Film Award and was nominated at the 2014 Bafta film awards for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
The title character, a teenager named Shell, played by newcomer Chloe Pirrie, mans a petrol station on a lonely road in the Scottish Highlands with her emotionally distant father Pete, played by Joseph Mawle. Her only other contact is with passing drivers – some regulars, others passing through the desolate terrain.
Shell is profoundly evocative in its setting and its attention to mood and character.
Refreshments will be served after the screening, giving the audience an opportunity to meet Graham.
The public is invited to the screening. Entrance is free.
Reservation is not obligatory but seating is limited. To reserve a seat, call Yanica Cassar on 2340 2309 or e-mail yanica.cassar@um.edu.mt.