RAGING GRACE (Feature Film)

• Director: Paris Zacilla (BIFA nominated)
• Producers: Chi Thai (Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2021)
• Cast: David Hayman, Leanne Best, Max Eigenmann, Jaeden Paige Boadilla
• ***SXSW 2023 WINNER for ‘Best Debut Feature’ & ‘The Grand Jury’ Prize***

Raging Grace is the first British Filipino film produced in the UK and had its world premiere at SXSW in 2023, where it picked up the two highest honours – Best Film in Competition and Best Debut. At its European Premiere at Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, it swept the awards picking up the Critics Prize, the Audience Award and the Youth Best Film Award. At MotelX, the film was finalist for the Melies d’argent. Recently Raging Grace received two BIFA nominations for the Maverick Award and Best Breakthrough Producer.

Joy (Max Eigenmann), an undocumented Filipina cleaner moving from house to house in London with her impetuous daughter Grace in tow, is saving up her meagre cash payments to get a visa and a more stable home for them both. Stuck in a roundabout of precarious employment, deportation fears and casual, constant put-downs by her employers, Joy cannot afford to stand still. A dreamy gig looking after a mansion and its bed-bound owner (David Hayman) turns out to be too-good-to-be-true when Joy starts suspecting the owner is being slowly poisoned… 

Writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s debut film elegantly balances gothic horror and social drama, producing an unholy child of a film that provokes as much as it spooks.