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Nina Conti recently enjoyed the world premiere of her narrative film directorial debut ‘Sunlight’, which played to numerous screenings and rave reviews at the relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival in August.
The film co-stars and was co-written with Shenoah Allen, of the Pyjama Men duo, and is executive produced by This Is Spinal Tap creator Christopher Guest. Set in Allen’s home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the plot has been inspired by Conti’s work with her Monkey puppet. She plays Jane, who creates a new persona when she disappears into a monkey costume. She strives to break free from a toxic relationship when she encounters a suicidal radio show host, Roy (Allen), who ‘presents a path to freedom’. The film is a darkly funny and unconventional love story between a man and a woman who doesn’t want to come out of a monkey suit.
Earlier in the year, Sunlight featured as part of the BFI and British Council’s annual ‘GREAT 8’ showcase at Cannes, which presents new feature films from the UK’s most exciting first and second-time filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers.