Sunlight
- 2024 film
Road trip comedy following a woman in a giant monkey costume and a suicidal radio host attempting to forge new lives. Stars Nina Conti, Shenoah Allen, Bill Wise and Melissa Chambers.
- This film project is currently in development
Press clippings
Sunlight review
The humour from Conti's puppet stand-up, while it does have its moments on film, does not translate well to the screen at all in Sunlight as a sloppy storyline and recycled jokes fall flat on its face in producing a farce and forgettable plot.
Paul Morrison, Entertainment Now, 22nd August 2024Sunlight review
Sunlight is Nina Conti's debut in the film world. It is an irreverent, outrageously funny, dark love story between a suicidal man and a woman too scared to emerge from a monkey suit.
Alice Pollard, Brig Newspaper, 19th August 2024Sunlight review
Nina Conti's directorial debut strikes the right balance between quirky, cute and tender.
Isy Santini, The List, 19th August 2024Sunlight review
Review of Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen's quirky road trip romcom at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 17th August 2024Nina Conti reveals her monkey puzzle starring in and directing debut feature film Sunlight
If it wasn't hard enough to juggle starring in and directing her debut feature film, Nina Conti gave herself an extra challenge - do it all in a giant monkey suit in the blistering heat of the New Mexico desert.
Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 28th July 2024Nina Conti: I murder other ventriloquists in their sleep
The comedian and actress on her film debut, Edinburgh show and the life-changing moment she picked up Monkey.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 26th July 2024When ventriloquist Nina Conti put on a monkey suit the result was romance and a road movie
Sunlight premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: A woman, a life-sized monkey suit and a man with unfinished business. When real life and fiction collide.
Janet Christie, The Scotsman, 26th July 2024Nina Conti's film Sunlight to premiere in Edinburgh
Nina Conti's directorial debut feature film Sunlight will have its world premiere at this year's relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival, it has been announced.
Chortle, 11th July 2024Nina Conti inhabits Monkey alter-ego for dark comedy movie Sunlight
Nina Conti stars and directs Sunlight, "a hilariously dark and unconventional love story" co-starring and written by the Pajama Men's Shenoah Allen, in which the ventriloquist inhabits her Monkey alter-ego.
British Comedy Guide, 24th April 2023