SHORT TO THE POINT – SEPTEMBER 2018 AWARDS
BEST FILM
THE DESECRATED
Director: John Gray
Country: United States
Duration: 07:48
Synopsis: A young morgue attendant encounters an unwelcome visitor.
BEST DIRECTOR
EMMA
Director: Sophie Gueydon
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 12:45
Synopsis: Emma (9) and her Mum recently moved to a new flat in London. Mum suffers from depression. Emma takes care of both herself and her mother, struggling between being a child and looking after her Mum’s needs.
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Damsels
Director: Delphine Corrard
Country: France
Duration: 19:36
Synopsis: Laurenne is an old lady in a retirement home. Discreet and obedient, she is quietly getting depressed. That is until she meets Sylvie, a forty-year-old woman freshly hired in the establishment. As they become friends, Laurenne finally discovers what boldness is.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Damsels
Director: Delphine Corrard
Country: France
Duration: 19:36
Synopsis: Laurenne is an old lady in a retirement home. Discreet and obedient, she is quietly getting depressed. That is until she meets Sylvie, a forty-year-old woman freshly hired in the establishment. As they become friends, Laurenne finally discovers what boldness is.
BEST EDITING
THE DESECRATED
Director: John Gray
Editor: Scott Boyd, ACE
Country: United States
Duration: 07:48
Synopsis: A young morgue attendant encounters an unwelcome visitor.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Ellie
Director: Miltiades Christides
Country: Greece
Duration: 08:44
Synopsis: Alarmed by area crime, Ellie panics when a hooded man enters her apartment.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Live And Leave
Director: Neo Zhang
Country: China
Duration: 16:20
Synopsis: A child who is abducted and sold, he can not speak anymore because his stepmother, and when she grows up, she goes back to her mother’s side. Desperate, he finally told his story at the police station.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Mister Swolo
Director: Eric Liddle
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 11:07
Synopsis: Facing a problematic creative block, Harrison embarks on a journey to Glen Coe with his best friend in order to reignite his artistic imagination, blissfully unaware of the chaos that stands before him.
BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM
The First Day of April
Director: Shauly Melamed
Country: Israel
Duration: 16:06
Synopsis: Guli wakes up in the middle of the night and finds her father, Uri, preparing a prank for April Fools’ Day (April 1st), which begins that next morning. When she awakens in the morning she is surprised to hear that her father died during his morning jog at the kibbutz where they live. While her family is busy with the funeral preparations, Guli finds clues that maybe her father is playing a practical joke on everyone.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
-6.831 miles
Director: Shuna Luo
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 04:23
Synopsis: -6.831 miles tells a story of a depressed man addicted to tiny space, and finally make himself disappeared. It’s a film about the universal feeling of insecurity as an individual that everyone had.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The Time Machine
Director: Gabriel Radu , Bogdan Marinescu
Country: Romania
Duration: 09:17
Synopsis: In 1981, in comunist Romania, a simple worker invented the time machine…his whole life changes after that.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Vous
Director: Pari Antoniou
Country: Greece
Duration: 08:13
Synopsis: The story is about the hopes and dreams of a girl who is about to pass away, slowly dying just like her country around her ,the beautiful moments are the ones that stay with her until the end.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Things Were Better Before
Director: Lu Pulici
Country: Italy
Duration: 06:00
Synopsis: Lost in the deep and polluted ocean, the captain of a submarine is trying to find a place for saving his friends and his little fish. Music video of the song Things Were Better Before by the English band Tankus The Henge.
BEST MINI SHORT
Adult Supervision
Director: Daniel Castro, Rinee Shah
Country: United States
Duration: 01:37
Synopsis: A love letter to the competent adults that help us navigate the tricky waters of life.
BEST MOBILE PHONE SHORT
Kamikaze
Director: Natalia Rojas Gamarra
Country: Peru
Duration: 19:48
Synopsis: Julia, a 27 year old woman, has been dumped. This has left her in a pretty vulnerable situation that led her into making bad decisions that have ended up turning her into a love kamikaze.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
Ten minutes tops
Director: Antoine de Bujadoux
Country: France
Duration: 06:16
Synopsis: A man and a woman sit at a table together. They have ten minutes to talk and lots of things to say.
