Kino London Short Film Festival
April 23 to May 1
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s festival - from filmmakers to our industry guests. Also a big thanks to our festival programmers, jury and sponsors.
Our Awards Gala was held on April 30th at the Garden Cinema
And the winners are…
BEST SPONSORED SHORT
(for films made with a budget of £5000+)
OTHER HALF Directed by Lina Kalcheva & Written by Laura Jayne Tunbridge & Produced by Michelle Brøndum
Nominees:
EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES Written & Directed by Charlotte Hamblin & Produced by Leonora Darby, Charlotte Hamblin, James Harris, Mark Lane
FALL BETTER Written & Directed by George Magner & Produced by Joshua Brown
THE FORFEIT Written & Directed by Josie Charles & Phoebe Brooks & Produced by Lily Donnelly, Amy George
WHEN THE CLAPPING STOPS Directed by Cameron Perry & Written by Sam Briggs & Produced by Mo Abdelkhalek, Tom Nangle
BEST LOW BUDGET SHORT
(for films made with a budget of £1000 to £5000)
PICTURING WONDERLAND Directed by Alfie Elms & Written by Maud Rowell & Produced by Jack Jeffery
Nominees:
DUET Written & Directed by Floris Driebergen & Produced by Pilar Cartró Benavides & Floris Driebergen
AN ISLAND DRIFTS Written & Directed by Vivian Ip & Produced by Jasmine Tay, Kim Mariel
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-SIX Directed by Dasha Gushchina & Produced by Varvara Sidorenko
THE SPRAYER Directed by Farnoosh Abedi & Written by Farnoosh Abedi, Pegah Fardiar & Produced by M.Reza Karimi Saremi, Negah Khezre Fardiar
Best Performance in a Drama
Jessica Courtney Leen “NOT MY SISTER”
Nominees:
Harriet Barrow “DUET”
Isaiah Bobb-Semple “SCRUTINY”
Quintus Lim “AN ISLAND DIRFTS”
Sarah Beck Mather “WHO’S COUNTING?”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WAVING Cinematography by Andrew Alderslade
Nominees:
CARRION Cinematography by Meg White
EDEN Cinematography by Barney Janes
THE FORFEIT Cinematography by Jack Worrall
IT’S DOG TO MAKE HOUSEPLANT IF YOU’RE SANDWICH Cinematography by Ehha Langguth
Best Editing
WHO’S COUNTING Edited by Eve Ashwell
Nominees:
EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES Edited by Caitlin Spiller
PICTURING WONDERLAND Edited by Alfie Elms, Maud Rowell, & Jack Jeffrey
ROBULTER Edited by James Button
SCRUTINY Edited by Christopher Morris
BEST MICRO-BUDGET SHORT
(for films made with a budget of under £1000)
OLUWALE Written, Produced & Directed by Jeremiah Quinn
Nominees:
EDEN Directed by Charlie Bush & Produced by Patrick Whinder-Montague
NIGHT LIGHTS Written, Produced & Directed by Max Davies
ROBUTLER Written & Directed by James Button & Produced by Paul Marke
SEM Written, Produced & Directed by Joke Duwaerts
BEST DIRECTOR
Yvonne Zhang “CARRION”
Nominess:
Josie Charles & Phoebe Brooks “THE FORFEIT”
Alfie Elms “PICTURING WONDERLAND”
Charlotte Hamblin “EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES”
Ben Lankester “WHO’S COUNTING?”
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY
Tanya Reynolds “EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES”
Nominees:
Nell Barlow “THE FOOL’S MATE”
Daniel Boyd “A MIND FULL”
James Button “ROBUTLER”
Omar Khan “VOICES”
BEST SCREENPLAY
THE FORFEIT by Josie Charles & Phoebe Brooks
Nominees:
EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES by Charlotte Hamblin
NO FILTER by Matthias Fuchez
OLUWALE by Jeremiah Quinn
THAT? by Madeline Shenai
BEST SCORE
THE FORFEIT Music by Gonzalo Varela
Nominees:
CARRION Music by Rob Ouyang Rusli
EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES Music by Carla Patullo
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-SIX Music by David Oganyan
VOICES Music by Daisy Coole & Tom Nettleship
BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER
Charlotte Hamblin for EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES
Nominees:
Yvonne Zhang for CARRION
Charlie Bush for EDEN
Vivian Ip for AN ISLAND DRIFTS
Madeleine Shenai for THAT?
AUDIENCE AWARD
EVERYBODY DIES… SOMETIMES
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