Wimbledon International Short Film Festival
We are fantastically pleased to announce that we’re running a real live Festival/Awards Night in 2021! Wimbledon International Short Film Festival is screening the official selection of films live – followed by awards on October 9th, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm) at the newly-refurbished Polka Theatre, London SW19 1SB!
Wimbledon International Short Film Festival has been running since 2009 and is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative work in film and video from around the world.
Important Dates
Open for entries – 1 January 2021
Close of entries – 20 July 2021
The 2020 Winners!
WIMBLEDON FILM CLUB – BEST FILM
Song Sparrow
Writer, director & producer – Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Writer – Mehdi Rostampour
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Fifteen
Writer & director – Peiman Zekavat
Producer – Yani Roncal Villanueva
BEST LONDON FILMMAKER
Anna
Writer, director & producer – Dekel Berenson
Producers – Merlin Merton & Olga Beskhmelnytsina
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Not for money, not for love, not for nothing
Writer & director – John Robert Lee
Animator – Ola Szmida
Producer – Christine Patterson
BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER
Grounding
Writer, director & producer – Oisín-Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
BEST DOCUMENTARY
To Sea or not to See
Writers – Luke Alexander Grose, Lilly Cooper, Tom McCann & Suhaylah Yusef
Producers – Sally Greig & Chelsea Way
2021 Awards Jury
Dominic Buttimore – Executive Producer
Andrew Chowns –Chair, Directors’ Charitable Foundation
Fiona Clarke-Hackston – Media Consultant, Memini
Deborah Haywood – Writer & Director
Manu Luksch – Artist and Filmmaker
Lila Rawlings – Head of Creative; Film and TV for Alfonso Cuarón
Matt Smith – Head of Distribution Lionsgate
Nick Toon – Director of Rational[e] Consulting
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