Rachel Tunnard

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Rachel Tunnard

Rachel Tunnard is a writer, director and editor. Her first feature, Adult Life Skills was nominated for six BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards) and won two. It also won the ‘Nora Ephron Prize’ at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, ‘Best Debut Screenwriter’ from the Writers Guild, the ‘Accession Award’ for Screenwriting at the East End Film Festival and was nominated for ‘Best Debut Feature Film’ …

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the NuggetChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget · 2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
6.92023
MovieFamilyAnimation
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
Military WivesMilitary Wives · 2020
Military Wives
6.62020
MovieDrama
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
Little AshesLittle Ashes · 2008
Little Ashes
5.82008
MovieDramaRomance
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Adult Life SkillsAdult Life Skills · 2016
Adult Life Skills
6.22016
MovieComedyDrama
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.
ShellShell · 2013
Shell
6.22013
MovieDrama
Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes her closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape.
Kill Kill Faster FasterKill Kill Faster Faster · 2008
Kill Kill Faster Faster
4.22008
MovieDramaThriller
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his work for the big screen, Joey falls for his new pal's ex-con wife, and enters into a doomed affair.
Fixing LukaFixing Luka · 2011
Fixing Luka
2011
MovieAnimation
Lucy thinks her brother, Luka, is broken. His obsessive, infuriating arrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines.
A Woman in WinterA Woman in Winter · 2007
A Woman in Winter
7.52007
MovieDrama
An astronomer enters into a destructive affair with a photographer.

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Native SonNative Son · 2010
Native Son
2010
MovieDramaHorror
John, lives in a remote area of Scotland. The primary industry is potato farming and John is a picker who lives for the harvests; it is all he has in his life. He yearns for a life that he does not know how to make for himself - a home and family. John exhibits all the signs of someone who has suffered unknown tragedies in his life, but those reasons are hidden from the viewer. While driving back to town on a dark and isolated road, John comes upon a car stopped up ahead. He immediately can see a hose attached to the exhaust pipe. He has come upon a suicide. Suddenly, headlights appear in the opposite direction and John's immediate reaction is to hide, though he has done nothing wrong. That choice leads John to take the body of the dead young woman to a shed in the woods.

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