Teenage Drama BRIDGEND, Starring Hannah Murray, Premieres 5/6

Written and directed by Jeppe Ronde, BRIDGEND stars Hannah Murray, Josh O'Connor, and Steven Waddington and will have its exclusive SVOD premiere Friday, May 6, 2016 via Fandor. Trailer: https://www.fandor.com/films/bridgend

Bridgend follows Sara and her dad, Dave as they arrive to a small village in Bridgend County. The village is haunted by suicides amongst its young inhabitants, and Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie while Dave as the town's new policeman tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides. The film is an UNCOMPROMISING story focused on the relationship between vulnerable teenagers and their parents who are left in the dark. The story of the film is based on a mysterious suicide cluster that took place in Bridgend County, a small former coal-mining province in Wales.

Between December 2007 and January 2012 seventy-nine suicides were officially committed in the area. Most of the victims were teenagers, they hanged themselves and left no suicide notes. Danish documentary filmmaker Jeppe Rønde followed the teenagers from the area for six years and wrote the script based on their life stories. Bridgend is Rønde's fiction film debut. It is entirely shot on location in Wales, with many of the local teenagers cast as actors.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Jeppe Rønde is one of Denmark's most acclaimed young directors. He has directed feature films, TV series, documentaries and commercials since graduating from the University of Copenhagen in 2002. His debut feature, 'Jerusalem My Love' won countless international prizes and his second, 'The Swenkas' won Jeppe the best International director award at the Toronto Film Festival. He's won several 'Roberts' (which are the Danish equivalent of the Oscars) for his TV and feature length documentary work. In commercials, Jeppe was voted the top director in Denmark in 2010, and at the Cannes Ad Festival in 2013, he won a Gold Lion for Best Direction, plus a bronze for cinematography for Come4 'The Lover', a seemingly seedy look at one mans obsession with sex and prostitution, with a twist. The film also won the Craft Grand Prix at Eurobest.

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