Berberian Sound Studio, a Warp X and Illuminations Films co production, takes home four awards at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).

The film fought off stiff competition from Sightseers and Broken to be presented with the most awards of the ceremony, held at the Old Billingsgate, London on 9 December 2012. Directed by Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio, was nominated seven times at the 15 annual BIFA event. The film is Strickland's second feature following his critically acclaimed debut feature film Katalin Varga.

Berberian Sound Studio was awarded: 

• Best Director - Peter Strickland
• Best Actor - Toby Jones
• Best Technical Achievement - Sound Design by Joakim Sundström / Stevie Haywood
• Best Achievement In Production- Berberian Sound Studio: Mary Burke and Keith Griffiths  

 

The DVD is available for pre-order now at Amazon, due to be released 31 December. 

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Soundtrack

The Berberian Sound Studio soundtrack by Broadcast will be released 7 January 2013 (8 January in N. America) on CD, Vinyl & download

It is available for pre-order now from Amazon and Bleep  

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The British Independent Film Awards


Last year Warp Films and Warp X gathered 18 nominations from the BIFAs across three films; Kill List, Submarine and Tyrannosaur. Tyrannosaur won best independent film of the year and best actress went to Olivia Colman, Submarine won best Screenplay by director Richard Ayoade and Kill List won a BIFA via Michael Smiley for best supporting actor


The BIFAs were created in 1998 by Raindance founder Elliot Grove, The British Independent Film Awards set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British filmmaking and British talent to a wider public.
See the full list of BIFA nominations and winners.





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Berberian Sound Studio Synopsis


It's 1976 and Gilderoy, an introverted sound engineer of a very sensitive disposition from Dorking, specialising in local nature documentaries, goes to Italy to work on the horror film ‘The Equestrian Vortex’ by exploitation maestro Giancarlo Santini. Only the cheapest, nastiest and most abhorred films pass through the run-down Berberian Sound Studio doors though and in this crazy, dodgy and alien environment Gilderoy composes bloodcurdling sounds from hacked vegetables, works out how to create chainsaw effects and mixes screams. But soon life begins to imitate art as both time and realities begin to shift – and Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of on screen witchcraft, off-screen sexual intrigue and sonic and personal mayhem. From Strickland comes an evocative celebration and delicious deconstruction of the Italian horror genre, full of sly references and a brilliant soundtrack by Broadcast.