First Run Film Festival

Bitter Weeds

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Bitter Weeds

Directed by Reuben Hamlyn


Writer: Reuben Hamlyn
Producers: Mary Catherine Harvey, Cary Mason, Kweku Panti Amoa, Max Keegan
Editor: Reuben Hamlyn
Cinematographer: Theo Gray

Logline: Bitter Weeds follows mischievous 16-year-old, Liam, after he is sent to look after his dementia-suffering grandmother Patricia who unravels as she repeatedly mistakes him for her cheating late husband.

Runtime: 12:00

Reuben Hamlyn
Reuben Hamlyn

Graduate Film
rph9457@nyu.edu

​​Reuben is a writer/director/editor from London. His feature documentary, Another Body, won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW 2023 and was released in multiple territories. It was nominated for an Emmy in ‘Outstanding Direction - Documentary’, and two BIFAs. His fiction short, Bitter Weeds, was shortlisted for the student Academy Award.