Kindling

Director: Connor O'Hara
Production Company: Lowkey Films & Haymarket Films 
Producer: Jamie Gamache, Mark Foligno 
DOP: David Wright
NLE: Avid Media Composer 2020

Synopsis

Based on writer/director Connor O’Hara’s own experience of losing two friends within two days of each other at the impressionable age of 21, Kindling is the story of a group of young men at their most vulnerable – as they grapple with grief and mortality whilst rallying together to make one friend’s last days, the best of his life.

In November 2022, the film secured an April 2023 theatrical release from Signature Entertainment in the UK and Ireland. Kindling had its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival and also screened at the Phoenix Film Festival in March. It became the first British film in six years to feature in the Competition lineup at the Shanghai International Film Festival in May. In July 2023, the BBC acquired a license to broadcast the film.