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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