nowhere boy and KICKS up for London Film Festival awards

By Catherine Jones on Oct 15, 09 11:57 AM

Good news that not one but TWO Liverpool based films are up for accolades at the London Film Festival this month.
Nowhere Boy, the John Lennon teen biopic, and KICKS, which was one of the three Digital Departures winners during Capital of Culture year, are both in the running for awards.

Nowhere Boy is up against movies like The Fantastic Mr Fox for best film at the ceremony on October. John Lennon (well, not really, Aaron Johnson but you know what I mean) verses George Clooney. THAT should be interesting.
That's obviously great news for Liverpool, but in a way I'm even more pleased about KICKS whose Halewood-based writer Leigh Campbell is up for best newcomer.
It was made in Liverpool on a teeny tiny budget with Merseyside actors (including the very sweet Kerrie Hayes who, incidently, also has a small role in Nowhere Boy) and as part of 2008 celebrations.
Good luck to both of them.