Screentest 2008 - The Nominees
We’ve had an amazing amount of great quality student-made films this year and in the ten days or so since the deadline we’ve been watching them around the clock to decide on nominees for our awards and choices for screenings at the festival.
Now however, I can reveal the final list of nominees for our award ceremony. Congratulations to all those picked and commiserations to those who missed out - this was our strongest ever year and we had hard decisions to make in a lot of the categories. In the end length of entries meant we had to cut a number of films, although a few had to be left out for copyright reasons - if it’s not clear you own the rights to use a piece of music (i.e. it is clearly acknowledged in the credits) we unfortunately cannot use your film.
Here are the nominees for all the awards:
The Nominees:
Grand Jury Prize:(judged by a panel of judges including guest speakers at the festival and the editor of Total Film magazine)
Jump (Director James Nunn, Westminster)
The Ritz (Directors Dino Dimopoulos/Simon Ryninks, UEA)
Anticlockwise (Director Dimitris Bavellas, Northern Film School)
The Doorstep Deed (Director Zak Klein, UEA)
Osgood’s Circus (Director Elliot Fu, Westminster)
Shenzen - Transformation in Modern China (Director Tianqi Yu, Westminster)
Comedy:(judged by University of Bristol Film-making society)
Anticlockwise (Director Dimitris Bavellas, Northern Film School)
Starting Docs: Immigration (Director Michael Shelley, Edge Hill)
The Doorstep Deed (Director Zak Klein, UEA)
The Visitors (Director Tom Savage, Bristol)
The Wardens (Director Chris Nunn, London South Bank)
Documentary:
Blood Tar and Honour (Director Jonas Molina, Farnham)
Shenzen - Transformation in Modern China (Director Tianqi Yu, Westminster)
Sunaina (Director Namrata Goyal, Queen Mary College London)
The World’s Biggest Experiment (BlueSci Team, Cambridge)
Drama:(judged by Bristol Fine Film Society)
Billy Wright (Director Ed Lilly, Salford)
Jump (Director James Nunn, Westminster)
The Ritz (Directors Dino Dimopoulos/Simon Ryninks, UEA)
Osgood’s Circus (Director Elliot Fu, Westminster)
Action/Horror:
Long Walk Home (Director Chris Nunn, London South Bank)
Cold Reading (Director Piers Royce, Southampton)
Breaking The Silence (Director Vito Bruno)
Remember To Rescue Me (Director Kate Lane, Bournemouth Arts Institute)
Animation:
Eyesaw (director Syd Harvey, London South Bank)
I Am Ahab (director Max Alexander, Bristol UWE)
Routine (Director David Casson, University College for the creative arts, maidstone)
Music Video:
World on Fire (Director Piers Royce, Southampton)
I Am Ahab (Director Max Alexander, Bristol UWE)
Technical Achievement:
Ignorance (Director Liam Pearce, Southampton Solent)
The World’s Biggest Experiment (BlueSci Team, Cambridge)
Jump (Director James Nunn, Westminster)
Osgood’s Circus (Director Elliot Fu, Westminster)
Script:
The Ritz(Writers Dino Dimopolous/Simon Ryninks)
The Wardens (improvisation by actors and director Chris Nunn, London South Bank)
The World’s Biggest Experiment (BlueSci Team, Cambridge)
Starting Docs - Immigration (Michael Shelley and Anthony Bell, Edge Hill)
The Doorstep Deed (Zak Klein, UEA)
Congratulations again to all the nominees. The festival kicks off at 4PM on Friday 29th February with the Awards show at 7PM on Saturday 1st March, we hope to see you all there.
Many thanks for all your entries, we couldn’t do it without you.
Tomas Martin,
Screentest 2008 coordinator