Last Conker is a British independent film & television company. We love genre. We love the stories that unravel from the complex web of diaspora. We love urgent voices that tell of a fairer and greener future.
We were awarded a BFI Vision Award in 2020 & selected for the UK Global Screen Fund & BBC Small Indies Fund in 2023.
Our latest film, Raging Grace launched at SXSW 2023 where it was awarded the festival’s highest honours: Grand Jury Prizes for Best Film in Competition & Best Debut. Raging Grace is written and directed by Paris Zarcilla and was recently nominated for two BIFA awards: Best Breakthrough Producer & Raindance Maverick. Raging Grace has sold to major territories and recently was released theatrically in North America and the UK.
“Raging Grace's heady blend of horror, history, & midnight humour announces the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in writer-director Paris Zarcilla. The story of a Filipina house cleaner & her young daughter confronting Britain's racial & class divides, Raging Grace is both frank & elusive, a film that subverts expectations on its way to a stirring conclusion. In cleverly employing genre tropes to explore vast socio-political matters, Zarcilla has crafted a resonant, urgent work about labour, legacy, & diaspora.”
Titles in development include the Not Booker Prize winning novel Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li, and the Carnegie Medal nominated science fiction novel Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen.
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Founded & helmed by award-winning British Vietnamese filmmaker and Screen International Screen Star of Tomorrow, Chi Thai. Her recent credits includes Raging Grace, Lullaby and the adaptation of the award-winning New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, The Promise, by Nicola Davies & Laura Carlin for the BBC & Netflix Original, Little Miss Sumo.
She is also the co-founder of the award-winning screening label, MilkTea.
She co-authored two EDI reports Disrupt the Narrative (2024) a study that analyses the distribution of BFI film funds and The Exclusion Act (2021) a report that exposes the marginalisation of British East & Southeast Asians in the film industry.