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Award Winners

Judging Panel

Find out more about the 2023 Judging Panel here.

Best Film:
In Too Deep

Nominees: A Few Steps Further, Fireworks, In Too Deep, Leave To Remain, Mask

Best Documentary:
Friday Night Blind

Nominees:
Brotherness, Friday Night Blind, Hazelwood Avenue, Interviewing Dad, The Storm Chaser

Best Director:
Margaret Kane-Rowe (Mask)

Nominees:
Ahmad Alyaseer (Our Males and Females), Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies), Margaret Kane-Rowe (Mask), Mac Nixon (Jackdaw), Yilmaz Özdil (The Banishment)

Best Actor:
Saman Mustefa (The Banishment)

Nominees:
Bamshad Abedi-Amin (Leave To Remain), Graham Earley (Mask), Keyhan Maleki (A Few Steps Further), Michael Socha (Edicius), Saman Mustefa (The Banishment)

Best Actress:
Teresa Del Olmo (Sola)

Nominees:
Charlotte Riley (Fireworks), Janice Connolly (Linda), Rachel Shenton (In Too Deep), Sarah Winter (Tommies), Teresa Del Olmo (Sola)

Best Young Performer:
Tom Mulheron (Brotherly Love)

Nominees:
Bonga Sizwe Nhlongo (Father's Day), Fatima Haghparast (Za Ra), Joseph Davison (Wuss), Lily Brooks O'Briant (Sharing The Floor), Tom Mulheron (Brotherly Love)

Best Early Career Filmmaker:
Vanessa Stachel (A Bloody Graveyard Story)

Nominees:
Adam Thomas Wright (The End Of A British Summer), Clàudia Orriols (Sola), Connor Maclaren (Brotherly Love), Lily Brooks O'Briant (Sharing The Floor), Vanessa Stachel (A Bloody Graveyard Story)

Best Editing:
Pani Scott (Fireworks)

Nominees:
Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (Tommies), John Smith ACE (Edicius), Julia Elger (Brotherness), Mike Brown and Nicholas Jon Beaubien (Get In), Pani Scott (Fireworks)

Best Cinematography:
Andy Toovey (Jackdaw)

Nominees:
Andy Toovey (Jackdaw), BLOK (A Dishonourable Death), Dilsat Canan (The Banishment), Khoroldorj 'Hogo' Choijoovanchig (Morin Khuur), Will Billany (The Storm Chaser)

Best Music or Score:
Kurt Rosenberg (The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth)

Nominees:
Earthside (All We Knew and Ever Loved), Kurt Rosenberg (The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth), Olaf Taranczewski (Morin Khuur), Sandy Lavallart (King of Sea), Tommy Evans (Wake Up)

Best Sound:
The Storm Chaser

Nominees:
Get In, Jackdaw, Morin Khuur, Our Males and Females, Trigger

Best Production Design:
Tommies

Nominees:
A Dishonourable Death, Edicius, i THINK about KILLING you, Jackdaw, Tommies

Best Animation:
The Well

Nominees:
A Bloody Graveyard Story, All We Knew And Ever Loved: Earthside, King of Sea, The Moon Followed Me To Falmouth, The Well

Best Comedy:
A Dishonourable Death

Nominees:
A Dishonourable Death, Bingo, Bleep, Get In, Linda

Best Experimental Film:
i THINK about KILLING you

Nominees
...And Again The Bombs Fall, BeLly, I Spy With My Little Eye, i THINK about KILLING you, Nėædra

Best Horror, Science Fiction or Thriller:
Edicius

Nominees
Can I Help?, Edicius, Momento Mori, Takbir, The Well

Best Local Film:
Echo

Nominees
A Mosaic of All Possible Greens, Echo, Her Castle, How To Cope With Oliver Pope, The End of a Birtish Summer