Ahead of its UK release next month, a trailer has arrived online for the 90s-set rave culture drama Beats. Directed by Brian Welsh, the film stars Cristian Ortega and Lorn Macdonald as friends Johnno and Spanner who decide to spend one last night together at an illegal rave when a move forces them to part […]
2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats
Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]
First-look clip from UK rave culture drama Beats
Altitude has unveiled the first clip from Beats, a coming of age drama set against the backdrop of the UK rave scene of the 1990s, which is directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror) and stars newcomers Cristian Ortega and Lorn Macdonald alongside Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad), Brian Ferguson (Outlander), Ross Mann (Reverb), Gemma McElhinney (Outlaw King), […]
