Director: Bernardo Nascimento
Country:UK
Producer: James Youngs
Cast:Clive Russell, Francisco Tavares, Grant Masters (voice), Guilherme Mendonca
Synopsis
An isolated air-traffic controller in an island of the Azores archipelago receives a transatlantic emergency signal from a lost plane. As the engagement with the lone pilot unfolds, it emerges that their new found friendship will not last through the night.
Bernardo Nascimento
Biography
Bernardo Nascimento was born in Portugal in 1975, spending his childhood between Lisbon and Madeira, a small island in the middle of the Atlantic. He studied Music and History in Lisbon and Paris before he started working in film as an assistant director with Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira. In 2005 Bernardo moved to London, working in projects from "auteur" films to blockbusters like Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass. North Atlantic marks his debut as a director.
