FESTIVALS AND ACCOLADES
British Short Film Awards | Best English Film Nominee
Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival (OSCAR, BAFTA)
Indy Shorts Film Festival (OSCAR, BAFTA)
London Short Film Festival (BAFTA, BIFA)
Leuven Short Film Festival (OSCAR, BAFTA)
Short Com Film Festival (BAFTA, BIFA)
Unrestricted View Festival (BIFA) | Best Comedy Winner
Exit 6 Film Festival (BIFA) | Best Screenplay Nominee
The Shortest Nights (BIFA)
Spirit Of Independence Film Festival (BIFA)
Brighton Rocks Film Festival (BIFA)
Deeper Into Movies Shortcuts
This is England Film Festival
Ealing Film Festival
Defy Film Festival
Greenwich Film Festival | Best Production Design Winner
Rome International Film Festival | Best Dark Short Winner
Lisboa Indie Film Festival | Best Actor Winner
Athens Short Film Festival | Best Comedy Nominee
After new evidence proves his innocence, the wife of a notorious serial killer must come to terms with the fact that her husband is not the murderer she fell in love with.
When Ophelia collects her husband from the prison gates, Donald learns how far he will go for love, as the couple struggle to pick up the pieces of their imploding marriage.
Starring comedy veteran Matthew Cottle (The Responder, Man Down, The Windsors) as Donald Peartree and star of stage and screen Ellie Nunn (The Daughter in Law, Shakespeare in Love) as Ophelia Peartree.
PRESS
“The Nun Slayer is one of the most delicious premises I can recently remember, and paired with a good visual approach of strong production design and vintage-inspired photography, the film achieves what might be the most important goal of any short - memorability.” - Short Of The Week
Read The New Current interview about ‘The Nun Slayer’ here.
Read Movie Magazine’s Indy Shorts Line-Up here.
Written and Directed by: Ben Bovington-Key
Produced by: Harry Green, Ben Mickshik, Hugo Nicholson
Cinematography by: Wouter Verheul
Edited by: Ash White
Costume Design by: Eve Oakley
Hair and Makeup by: Teryne Phillips
Production Design by: Stuart Armstrong
Sound Design by: Cam Griffith
Original Score by: Dave Malkin







