Saturday 21 November, 1pm. Running time 64 minutes, followed by a filmmaker Q&A
Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London, E8 1HE
Tickets: £7.50 / £5 concessions, All Day Ticket: £30 / £20 concessions, Weekend Pass: £45 / £35 concessions

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LOOKING GLASS: Best Cinematographer Award sponsored by Greenkit

From a music video for Damon Albarn, to the seedy underworld of Soho via depictions of repressed memory and insight into alternative states of mind, this category’s lyrical and visually arresting films display an inventiveness and beauty that only film can fully realise.

Award sponsored by London based lighting equipment hire company Greenkit. The winner will receive £2,000 worth of energy efficient lights to use on their next project.

RACHEL COMING HOME

Rachel returns home for the funeral of her estranged mother.

Writer/Director: Sophia Tamburrini
Producer: Maura Murphy
Rachel: Sophie Merry
Cinematographer: Sophia Tamburrini
Editor: Robert O’ Connor

HEAVY SEAS OF LOVE

The challenge was to make an interactive video for Damon Albarn using Interludes software. See the interactive version at Genero TV. Inspired by ‘Heavy Seas of Love’ Damon Albarn and Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ a ‘Charlotte Sometimes’ Alice in Wonderland style adventure through historic time lapses in London.

Producer/Director/Editor/Cinematographer: Ruth Gardiner (Roofjee Films)
Actor: Kaye Affresco

THE ROARING

Frank and Bea embark on a trip to the Cornish coast in order to satisfy Franks’ obsession with the sea serpent, Morgawr.

Director/Writer/Producer: Amy Thompson
Producer: Thomas Clarke
Associate Producer: Katrina Teobald
Director of Photography and Camera Operator: Faith Glenister
Editor: Ben Kersey
Sound: Ben Knock and Daniel Hamer
Production Design & Styling: Leah Croft
Script Editor: George Kitchen

KNIT ME SOME HAPPINESS

Knit Me Some Happiness is about the day the Sheffield Knitting Club collectively made a picnic blanket. It turned out to be a big picnic.

Director: Sofia Olins
Executive Producer: Milan Krsljanin
Directors of Photography: Nicola Daley & Jen Fearnley
Editor: Jen Fearnley
Ariel Photography: Jeremy Braben, Helicopter Film Services
Sound Design: Lucy Johnstone

NAZI BOOTS

Narrated and inspired by the memories of Holocaust survivor Janine Webber, Nazi Boots dramatises Janine’s childhood trauma while exploring her adult need for catharsis.

Actor: Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Actor: Archie Bradfield
Actor: Lucy Griffiths
Director: Debs Paterson
Cinematographer: Kate Reid
Production Designer: Caroline Harper
Editor: Miikka Leskinen

LIQUID GOLD IS THE AIR

Liquid Gold is the Air is a split screen triptych full of richly coloured iconographic images and fleeting dances set within the Cathedral of Trees, an arboretum planted on the footprint of Norwich Cathedral. Eighty people of all ages move with grace and vitality through the dappled sunlight.

Directors: Roswitha Chesher & Rosemary Lee
Choreographer: Rosemary Lee
Cinematographer: Roswitha Chesher
Editor: Roswitha Chesher (with Rosemary Lee)
Sound Designer: Graeme Miller
Composer: Terry Mann
Producer: Nicky Childs

ROXANNE

Roxanne is a cold and isolated transgender sex worker who takes in Lily, an 11 year old girl who has been abandoned by her mother, when she sees the girl in danger. Bringing the girl into her home throws Roxanne’s life into disarray, and as the pair begin to bond, she is forced to question her priorities.

Roxanne: Miss Cairo
Lily: Thea Lamb
Writer/Director: Paul Frankl
Executive Producer: Ohna Falby
Producers: Akua Obeng Frimpong and Paul Frankl
Cinematographer: Rina Yang
Music: Benjamin Stefanski
Sound: Jules Woods
Editor: Fiona DeSouza
Production Designer: Ana Viana