Nick Bradshaw

Film writer/editor. Pro docs, toons, #NCFC goals. Citizen of the world/empty overcoat.

[Basel Adra @basel_adra]

NOW, 2 days after No Other Land was nominated for an Oscar, settlers are invading my community, Masafer Yatta, burning and breaking homes. I'm honored for the nom but we're being erased while Trump lifted US settler sanctions. Do people in Hollywood care? Please don't be silent.

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Wrote a few swift words last week about my early finds at @sheffdocfest including what turned out to be the main competition winner: https://t.co/0RD6vE5cNw

[Sheffield DocFest @sheffdocfest]

International Competition (Grand Jury Award)

🏆WINNER🏆
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking directed by Maja Novaković
(Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024)

[Veton Nurkollari @VetonNurkollari]

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[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

And let's not forget Putin is putting other jailed opposition leaders through the slow process of murder at this very moment. If he can't kill them quickly he'll do it slowly.

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

@navalny 🫶

[Alexey Navalny @navalny]

12/12 However, I dedicate my entire contribution to this film to honest and courageous people across the world who day after day find the strength to confront the monster of dictatorship and its constant companion, war.

[Sam Adams @SamuelAAdams]

the chorus of complaints has forced me to do something that goes against every principle I hold dear: defend the Academy Awards https://t.co/Zz3lurQQVq

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Ah shit

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

@PaulRidd 👏

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Errol Morris’s richly crafted portrait of John le Carré centres on a revealing final interview with the British spy novelist, recorded a year before his death in 2020.

Read @nickkinocritic’s review of The Pigeon Tunnel, screening tonight at #LFF2023. https://t.co/bbEI2ehk3a

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

@wendyide Fab news, well-deserved. Congrats Wendy!

[ClaireBerlinski.substack.com @ClaireBerlinski]

This should be said over and over again.

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, a star-studded sci-fi movie “festooned with markers of 1950s Americana” arrives in cinemas this Friday. @nickkinocritic reviews. https://t.co/Uk3Ni5uyDj

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

“I want to photograph a policeman kicking kids,” Tish Murtha told her college tutor, of her ambitions to document her deprived background. Paul Sng’s lovely @sheffdocfest opener #Tish reclaims her work – and asks us to ask why she couldn’t take it further https://t.co/xenyWHGB3K

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Paul Sng’s opener #Tish is a sad, quietly damning account of Britain’s social scrapheap that revives the insider underclass photography of Tyneside talent Tish Murtha, and through her eyes and words testifies to so many other squandered lives.

[TheDocSociety @TheDocSociety]

The new @DocFilmCouncil Talent Directory is going to be a transformative platform for building a network of independent nonfiction filmmakers across the UK. Register your profile here: https://t.co/emjTMLXDyN

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

I cannot begin to understand how this is not daily front page news… Braverman literally has no explanation for the whereabouts of 154 children. Where are they? What happened to them? How is this possible? Why is this not the biggest U.K. scandal in modern times? 154 children!!

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Tomorrow the UK doc sector aims to get organised – on a co-operative basis. Super-excited about this launch of the @DocFilmCouncil ⬇️

[Documentary Film Council @DocFilmCouncil]

As a co-operative, the DFC will be legally owned and run by and for its members on behalf of the UK’s documentary community.
Find out more at our launch event this Saturday @sheffdocfest https://t.co/oUqqULZ8pt

[Documentary Film Council @DocFilmCouncil]

Our website is LIVE! Sign up now to become a member of the Documentary Film Council and join the talent directory: https://t.co/FRplxGxymq

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

@markcousinsfilm @ScottishDocInst It is! Gorgeous film, I’m sure you’ll love it…

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Another I saw earlier (at its @cphdox premiere): Total Trust, Zhang Jialing’s terrifying portrait of China’s Orwellian, state-of-the-art surveillance regime, also at @sheffdocfest. I wrote a review: https://t.co/tPe2FZoXhp

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

Lovely to see a teeming @sheffdocfest again this year – and some stirring films on show.

[Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic]

A world premiere of Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown’s #DaltonsDream – a five-year labour of love following X-Factor winner @daltonharris through pre- and post-victory pressures (identity, mental health) between Jamaica and London. Fame is not his game.