As always the Best London Filmmaker award is highly competitive and we have seven films vying for the honour.
The Hungry Games
The Hungry Games is a satirical social observational comedy about the ridiculous (and often competitive!) body conforming pressures put on young women today.
Directors – Jessica Ellerby & Sam Swainsbury
Writer / Producer – Jessica Ellerby
Sketch
It’s an average day in an unassuming courtroom in 1979 when Anne, a courtroom illustrator, gets her world turned upside-down as a convict, and the love of her life, Simon, enters the room and she plunges into a world of her wildest dreams.
Writer / Director / Producer – Peter Lee Scott
Producer – Barbara Nanna
Edek
An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named Janine and a young American rapper named Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message to the youth of the world. A poignant and uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music and rap. For the first time, one of the world’s darkest stories is told in an entirely new way.
Writer / Director – Malcolm Green
Producers – Marc Cave & Sara Huxley
La Merde
You’ll never get a second chance at a first impression.
Writer / Director / Producer – Ben Adam-Harris
Writer – Steve Jones
Producer – Kevin Lee Brown