Nine Nights

Directed By Veronica McKenzie

Marcie and Mickey Haines are 16-year-old athletic twins. They're inseparable, leaving their mother, Leonore, feeling excluded. On the day of an important race for Marcie, Michael is hit by a car and killed. The next morning she wakes to find the house full of mourners, talking about Michael in the past tense.

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Teenage twins Marcie & Mikey are inseparable, though she's unaware that Mikey's been sneaking out to meet girls. On the day of Marcie's important race, Mikey is hit by a car and killed. The next morning Marcie wakes to find the house in mourning, and the family begins ‘Nine Night’, a Caribbean ceremony to help the dead and the living to cut ties. Marcie's dismissive, maintaining her brother is still alive, reminding them when Mikey cut his leg, she ‘felt pain in the same leg!’ As Mikey's secret life emerges, Marcie, consumed with jealously, searches for him, seeking answers. She starts to hear his whisper when half asleep, feels his presence close by. Then one night she sees him in the flesh. Very much alive! Though confused as to where he’s been, Michael resolves to return home. But as the Nine Nights count down, Marcie finds herself crossing between two worlds, to force Mikey home. After unearthing a shocking secret linked to her family, Marcie must decide whether she's willing to pay the ultimate price to be with her brother, so triggering a tug of war, which pits brother against sister, and threatens to tear the Haines family apart.
Veronica is a writer, director and budding historian, whose work includes 'UNDER YOUR NOSE' (2017) about UK black LGBTQ+ history, FINDING HOME about LGBTQ+ Asylum seekers, and MONICA: LOOSE ON A CRUISE which was a BFI Flare 2019 selection. Veronica recently completed a National Lottery funded BAME LGBTQ+ history project with the London Metropolitan Archives. Her debut feature 'NINE NIGHTS' won the Pan African Film Festival Narrative Feature Director Award 2019 and is released through Random Media. Currently, she's developing a female centric historical TV series based on an award winning book.