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Duane Hopkins shooting second feature

2013-04-02T15:31:00Z

George MacKay leads the cast of the character-driven thriller Bypass.

Film4 backs Duane Hopkins' feature debut Better Things

2006-11-06T04:00:00Z

Film4 hascome on board for Duane Hopkins' Better Things, soon to start shooting in theUK, and Fabrice de Welz's Vinyan, in development.Hopkins,who previously wrote and directed award-winning shorts Field and Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, will make his feature debut withBetter Things,a story about troubled teenagers in the picturesque ...

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Better Things

2008-05-17T11:30:00Z

Dir: Duane Hopkins. 2008. UK. 93minsCoping as best they can, the perpetually glum inhabitants of a rural town in the South West of England feel emotionally isolated, verging towards distraught in Better Things. Permeated by dispassionate drug use depicted without a shred of glamour, writer-director Duane ...

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Match Factory boards Duane Hopkins’ Bypass

2011-05-19T06:00:00Z

The Match Factory has announced an international rights deal with Third Films for Duane Hopkins’ upcoming feature Bypass.

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Griffiths' Illuminations readies busy slate including Duane Hopkins' Bypass

2013-02-12T06:00:00Z

Bypass, backed by the BFI and Film I Vast, is being produced by Third Films in Newcastle and is due to shoot in March.

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Better Things lie ahead

2006-11-08T00:00:00Z

Award winning short film-maker Duane Hopkins has received $486,000 (£255,000) from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund towards his debut feature Better Things.Currently in production, Better Things tells the story of a group of young adults struggling to get ahead in life with limited opportunities. Hopkins' script for the ...

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Screen opinion: audiences offer hope of better things

2008-10-30T20:51:00Z

It's not that my film deserves an audience, but its audience deserves to see it.' The frustration of Samm Haillay, a producer on Duane Hopkins' Better Things, encapsulates the critical issue for film.It is unrealistic to expect films like Hopkins' bleakly beautiful tale of growing up in the UK, to ...

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Film Agency for Wales backs new films from Coixet, Hopkins, Murphy

2012-03-21T12:30:00Z

The Film Agency for Wales is backing three new features with £460,000 in funding: Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes, Duane Hopkins’ Bypass, and Dominic Murphy’s Cassy and Jude.