Arriving with a truckload of praise and one or two awards for lead Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Catch Me Daddy is shaping up to be one of the more promising British dramas to happen along for a while. The trailer is now online via StudioCanal.
Directed by Daniel Wolfe and based on the script he wrote with brother Matthew, Catch Me Daddy finds Ahmed as Laila, a girl on the run from her family who is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron (Conor McCarron). When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
Ahmed has already scored Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards, and both she and the team were nominated for several others, including the Golden Camera at last year’s Cannes. With the likes of Lynne Ramsay proclaiming it as one to watch, it’s certainly an intriguing story based on the trailer. The film arrives in cinemas on February 27.