The Best London Filmmaker Award is always one of the most tightly contested awards, with such strong filmmaker talent across the capital. This year we have 6 films nominated for the award sponsored by Curzon Cinemas.
What Happened to Evie
Directed by Kate Cheeseman
Written by Carol Younghusband
Produced by Georgina French
What happened to Evie is a tale of culpability and horror that asks the audience to constantly connect the dots through a girl’s fractured and distorted memories of a sexual assault.
TMI
Written & Directed by Ita Fitzgerald
Produced by Fiona Wright
When a mother reads her teenage son’s texts it triggers an awkward conversation which is way too much information. A humorous and touching comedy about miscommunication.
Not An Excuse
Directed & Produced by Hector Bell
This film is a portrait about a Percussionist at music school who suffers with ADHD. He tells us how it can affect him on a day to day basis but also how it can be a blessing in disguise. We see how his passion for music works as a coping mechanism for him. The subject’s character and condition are reflected in the filmmaking so the viewer can get a feel what life is like for someone with ADHD.
Also nominated for Best Documentary & Best Young Filmmaker
In My Blood
Directed & Produced by Samuel Hicks
Kyle Gray is a Formula One Brisca Stock Car racing driver, one of the youngest ever drivers to compete. At just 16 years old, he is beating drivers twice his age and has recently been awarded Novice of the Year by Brisca.
Also nominated for Best Documentary
Every Six Hours
Directed by Thomas E. Murphy
Written by Edward Hanlon
Produced by Amy Gillies & Peter Bruteig Henriksen
Running for freedom is never as easy as it seems. Two refugees form an unlikely friendship while fighting for their lives hiding in a lone container.
Set in a time where the modern world is on the brink of collapse, Every Six Hours is the story of Katiya and Sakura. Two Refugees from Russia and Japan respectively, both trying to make it to a better world. On the run and trying to find shelter for the night, Katiya enters a shipping container stacked to the brim with boxes and is finally allowed her moments rest. When she wakes up, she realises two things. That she is not alone, and that her shelter for the night has been moved onto a container ship.
Also nominated for Best Young Filmmaker
Borderlands
Directed & Produced by Simon Lane & Victor Frankowski
Documentary
UK / Norway
The film traverses through the European Arctic, on the Norwegian and Russian border towns of Kirkenes (Norway) and Nikel (Russia). They are separated by 25 miles of vast, white sparseness and offer two very different perspectives on life in the artic, which due to global warming, share the same rapidly changing landscape.
In the ice cold seas and through the bleak soviet-era apartments, Borderlands explores the relationship between urbanity, industry, nature and the people that live there showing the vast difference in arctic settlements, their architecture, culture, and identity whilst portraying the normality of life in the Arctic frontier often eluded from the media.
Also nominated for Best Documentary
The Best London Filmmaker Award is always one of the most tightly contested awards, with such strong filmmaker talent across the capital. This year we have 6 films nominated for the award sponsored by Curzon Cinemas.
What Happened to Evie
Directed by Kate Cheeseman
Written by Carol Younghusband
Produced by Georgina French
What happened to Evie is a tale of culpability and horror that asks the audience to constantly connect the dots through a girl’s fractured and distorted memories of a sexual assault.
TMI
Written & Directed by Ita Fitzgerald
Produced by Fiona Wright
When a mother reads her teenage son’s texts it triggers an awkward conversation which is way too much information. A humorous and touching comedy about miscommunication.
Not An Excuse
Directed & Produced by Hector Bell
This film is a portrait about a Percussionist at music school who suffers with ADHD. He tells us how it can affect him on a day to day basis but also how it can be a blessing in disguise. We see how his passion for music works as a coping mechanism for him. The subject’s character and condition are reflected in the filmmaking so the viewer can get a feel what life is like for someone with ADHD.
Also nominated for Best Documentary & Best Young Filmmaker
In My Blood
Directed & Produced by Samuel Hicks
Kyle Gray is a Formula One Brisca Stock Car racing driver, one of the youngest ever drivers to compete. At just 16 years old, he is beating drivers twice his age and has recently been awarded Novice of the Year by Brisca.
Also nominated for Best Documentary
Every Six Hours
Directed by Thomas E. Murphy
Written by Edward Hanlon
Produced by Amy Gillies & Peter Bruteig Henriksen
Running for freedom is never as easy as it seems. Two refugees form an unlikely friendship while fighting for their lives hiding in a lone container.
Set in a time where the modern world is on the brink of collapse, Every Six Hours is the story of Katiya and Sakura. Two Refugees from Russia and Japan respectively, both trying to make it to a better world. On the run and trying to find shelter for the night, Katiya enters a shipping container stacked to the brim with boxes and is finally allowed her moments rest. When she wakes up, she realises two things. That she is not alone, and that her shelter for the night has been moved onto a container ship.
Also nominated for Best Young Filmmaker
Borderlands
Directed & Produced by Simon Lane & Victor Frankowski
Documentary
UK / Norway
The film traverses through the European Arctic, on the Norwegian and Russian border towns of Kirkenes (Norway) and Nikel (Russia). They are separated by 25 miles of vast, white sparseness and offer two very different perspectives on life in the artic, which due to global warming, share the same rapidly changing landscape.
In the ice cold seas and through the bleak soviet-era apartments, Borderlands explores the relationship between urbanity, industry, nature and the people that live there showing the vast difference in arctic settlements, their architecture, culture, and identity whilst portraying the normality of life in the Arctic frontier often eluded from the media.
Also nominated for Best Documentary
