Candlestick (film)

A meeting of friends descends into a sinister game when one of them accuses the wife of his best friend of infidelity.^[2]

• Andrew Fitch as Jack
• Isla Ure as Vera
• Nigel Thomas as Frank
• Tom Knight as Major Burns
• Dan March as Inspector Marcus Evans

The film was shot in London during November 2012. Presswell has cited the work of Alfred Hitchcock, particularly Rope and Dial M for Murder, as an influence on the film.^[3][4]

Candlestick made its UK debut on 8 October 2014 at the Aberdeen Film Festival,^[5] with further festival screenings at IndieCork,^[6] South African Horrorfest^[7] and the Bratislava International Film Festival.^[8]

In November 2014, Candlestick opened the 30 Dies Fantastic Film Festival in Andorra,^[2] and was among the first non-Chinese-language films shown at the Europe China Image Film Festival.^[9]

In January 2015 the company announced that the film would open in the United States on 11 April of that year, and be released on VOD, DVD and Blu-ray.^[1]

Following the film's Irish première, NextProjection called the film a "juicy jaunt of a tale," and said that "like a Raymond Chandler 'cannibalisation', Candlestick may feed off the familiar, but it's the sport with which it spits it back out that makes it feel so fresh".^[10]

The film won three awards at the 30 Dies Fantastic Film Festival, Andorra: best screenplay (Forgács W. András and Christopher Presswell); best original score (Jonathan Armandary); and best actor, shared by Andrew Fitch, Isla Ure, Nigel Thomas and Tom Knight.^[11]

The film received a mention for its screenplay at the Overlook: CinemAvvenire Film Festival 2014 in Rome.^[12]

On 19 November 2015 a post on titled "This is how movies are delivered to your local theater"^[13] containing pictures of the film's DCP hard drive went viral, reaching the #1 spot on Reddit, and gathering widespread social media attention.^[14]