DANIEL THOMAS FREEMAN

'Catch Me Daddy'
Matthew Watson and Daniel Thomas Freeman

Feature film score completed Friday 27 February 2015







description

Catch Me Daddy film poster

A young couple whose relationship has divided a community are forced on the run through the streets and moors of nocturnal Yorkshire.

An EMU FILMS production supported by Film4, BFI, Lipsync, Screen Yorkshire and Studio Canal.


screenings and awards

Selected for the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2014 (France) and nominated for the Camera D'Or.

Winner of Most Promising Newcomer (actor Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) and nominated for 4 other awards in the British Independent Film Awards.

Winner of Best British Newcomer (actor Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) at the BFI London Film Festival 2014 (UK) and nominated for the Graham Sutherland First Feature Award and Best British Newcomer (writers / directors Daniel and Matthew Wolfe).

Included in the Variety's Critics' Choice selection at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Czech Republic).

Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the Dinard British Film Festival 2014 (France).

Also selected for the Jerusalem International Film Festival (Israel), the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) and the Espoo Cine Intl Film Festival (Finland).


reviews

"a dischordant, eerie nightmare that seeps into your skin and lingers there for weeks"
Indiewire's 2015 list of '15 Composers To Watch'

"The ominous ambient score ... feeds into this slow crescendo of rumbling unease"
The Hollywood Reporter website review

"superb use of visuals and music together to create something which is almost fairy tale"
Mark Kermode (BBC)

"A rumbling, sometimes discordant score ... provides a highly effective assist"
Variety website review

"'Catch Me Daddy' Is The Best British Debut Of The Year"
Grolsch Film Works website review

"the score ... is wild ... the frenetic music propels the entire film forward"
FathersOnHolyGore website review

"5/5 ... a monstrous beauty in grim details ... unspeakably powerful"
The Irish Times website review

"5/5 ... subtle nightmare-creators stepping towards the hyperreal ... that haunting, that original, that unplaceable"
The Financial Times website review

"4/5 ... fresh and immediate ... feels authentic and informed ... ambiguous and unpredictable"
Time Out website review

"4/5 ... feels primal and strangled when combined with the unearthly din of [the] primordial score"
Fan The Fire website review

"4/5 ... the direction from Daniel Wolfe is extraordinarily good for a first feature"
Live For Films website review

"a director with enormous promise ... the score ... is also excellent"
Indiewire website review

"4/5 ... a terrifically bright start for its director"
The Telegraph website review

"almost has a Coen brothers vibe"
The London Evening Standard website review

"a fierce and boldly questioning drama about ... contemporary Britain"
The Guardian website review

"compelling, powerful, confident, captivating cinema"
The Huffington Post website review

"4/5 ... a beautifully realised vision"
The Metropolist website review

"hugely impressive debut feature ... a fine use of music to inform the ramping up of tension"
The Moviescramble website review

"4/5 ... everything about this film creates a perfect British thriller"
The UpComing website review

"an utterly astounding first film from the Wolfe brothers"
SHUMedia website review

"a similar intensity and commitment for authenticity ... to the work of Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard"
flickreel website review

"stunning visuals and visceral soundtrack"
The Thin Air website review

"4/5 ... the film's soundtrack, often bizarrely dissonant with the goings-on on screen, is used masterfully"
SW | Seroword website review

"9/10 ... meticulous precise detail throughout the film on every shot, every location, sound design"
Midlands Movies website review


chapters

01 Blackened Crystal
02 A Walk Up Eldon Street /
     Hunting Through A Locked Door /
     Falcon (For Jay Ali) /
     Burning Fields III
03 Dobrudden
04 Descent From The Bridge
05 The Moorland Broke Loose
06 ... On Calderdale Ridge
07 Leave This Place
08 Waiting For The Brake Lights
09 Monument I
10 High Tension Wires /
     The Infinite And The
     Unknowable (excerpt II)


credits

Written and produced by Matthew Watson and Daniel Thomas Freeman

Score recorded and mixed by Daniel Thomas Freeman

"The Infinite And The Unknowable" was written and produced by Daniel Thomas Freeman and is licensed from the album of the same name on Blinkin the Endless

Film directed by Daniel and Matthew Wolfe

An EMU FILMS production supported by Film4, BFI, Lipsync, Screen Yorkshire and Studio Canal

Poster artwork by Mu pan



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