Romford Film Festival

Film festival

Romford Film Festival

Location| Romford, London, England
Founded| 2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Founded by| Spencer Hawken
Most recent| May 24–28, 2024
Awards| 20
Language| English
Website| romfordfilmfestival.com

The Romford Film Festival is an independent film festival founded in 2017 by festival director Spencer Hawken. The festival takes place annually in Romford, United Kingdom and is hosted at Premiere Cinemas inside The Mercury Mall.[1]

The festival celebrates the showcasing of the best independent British and International films. The festival provides a platform for established and emerging filmmakers in showcasing their work, discover new talent, and network with industry professionals. The festival also gives opportunities for audiences to engage with filmmakers through live Q&A's. The festival includes screenings from first-time filmmakers to some of the most established names on the independent film circuit with features, short films, music videos, documentary films and Animation. The festival recognises the achievements of filmmakers through awards in multiple categories.[2]

The festival has attracted a growing audience of filmmakers and industry professionals over the years including Joan Collins, Caroline Munro, Pauline Peart, Larry Lamb and Marc Bannerman.[3]

## History

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In 2020, the 4th festival was held from 13 to 18 August 2020 and was the first physical festival in the UK post COVID-19 outbreak.[4]

In 2021, the Romford Film Festival team was invited to attend Tashkent Film Festival where they were the first UK film delegation to attend.[5]

In 2022, the 6th festival was held from 19 to 25 May 2022 hosting over 180 films.[6] The festival screened Becontree 100 years a film about the first ever council estate in the UK.[7]

In 2023, the 7th festival was held from 24 to 30 May 2023 and hosted 160 films. The opening night at the festival featured the screening of Warner Brothers adventure movie, "Jim Button and the Wild 13" a sequel to original book Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver from the creators of The NeverEnding Story. Other notable films included the clacton-made revenge thriller "Morris Men," the UK premiere of the compelling drama "Out and About," and a trio of important and diverse films by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kenich Ugana.[8] Caroline Munro known for the bond girl Naomi in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me. Holby City's Sarah-Jane Potts and Hammer horror star Pauline Peart attend the festival.[9]

In 2024, the 8th festival took place between 24–28 May 2024.[10]

## Awards

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The Romford Film Festival recognises the achievements of filmmakers in the following awards.

* Best Feature Film
* Best British Film
* Best Documentary Film
* Best Short Film
* Best Foreign Language Film
* Best Local Film (Previously Best Havering Film)
* Best Animation
* Best No or Low Budget Film
* Best Director
* Best Screenplay
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Best Cinematography
* Best Editing
* Best Score
* Lifetime Achievement
* The Jury Prize
* Commendations
* Audience Choice

Key

| Award Nomination
| Award winner
2018 Season Nominations & Award Winners[11][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

|

Best Feature Film  | Redwood
A Landscape of Lies
Alone
Blue
Crowhurst
Dark Beacon
Drawing Home
Welcome To Essex
Your Move
Best Documentary Film  | Belonging: The Truth Behind The Headlines
America Kum
Cube Libre?
Flin Flon
Full Circle
The Marvin Case
The Ultimate Rally
Tonic of the Sea
Word From A Gamer
Best Short Film  | Calamity
43 Quintillion
Chimera
Disconnected
Kamatayan
Reclamation
Someday
Split Costs
Te Makutu
The Interrogation of Olivia Donovan
The Tolls
Tonic of the Sea
Best Havering Film  | Mumatar
Alone
Disconnected
Katrina
Mind Fuck
Visions
Wood
Best Animation  | Let Them Stand
Tour
Wood
Best Director  | Luke Goss (Your Move)
Corrie Greenop (Dark Beacon)
Gabriela Ledesma (Blue)
Jonathan Zsofi (Te Makutu)
Shane Ryan (Paper Kids)
Simon Rumley (Fashionista)
Steven Murphy (My Saviour)
Tom Paton (Redwood)
Tony Klinger (Full Circle)
Best Screenplay  | Dark Beacon
Blue
Calamity
Reclamation
Since I Don't Have You
Split Costs
Te Makutu
The Guardians
Your Move
Best Actor  | Francois Maquet (Calamity)
Danny Mindwinter (Landscape Of Lies)
James Hamer-Morton (My Bloody Banjo)
Juan Riedinger (Drawing Home)
Luke Goss (Your Move)
Mike Beckingham (Redwood)
Mu-Shaka Benson (Mei Anchol Ia)
Stephen Kerr (Son)
Warren Day (Alone)
Best Actress  | Callie Schuttera (Blue)
Amanda Fuller (Fashionista)
April Pearson (Dark Beacon)
Bayley Freer (My Saviour)
Ingrid Heiderscheidt (Calamity)
Julie L. Mortenson (Drawing Home)
Sarah Hawkins (Roller Coaster)
Tatjana Nardone (Redwood)
Vanessa Emme (The Observer Effect)
Best Supporting Actor  | Rutgar Hauer (Drawing Home)
Chris Santos (Someday)
David Whitney (The Guardians)
Eric Balfour (Fashionista)
Laurence Harvey (My Bloody Banjo)
Marc Zammit (Chimera)
Mark Bannerman (Landscape Of Lies)
Shaw Jones (Blue)
Wallace Shawn (Drawing Home)
Best Supporting Actress  | Mela Hudson (Split Costs)
Amanda Wyss (It Happened Again Last Night)
Amy Loughton (Crowhurst)
Dani Thompson (My Bloody Banjo)
Debra Leigh-Taylor (Dogged)
Ellie Paskell (The Interrogations Of Olivia Donnovan)
Hattie Hayridge (The Guardians)
Kate Mulgrew (Drawing Home)
Lynne A. Rodgers
Rayanna Dibs (Alone)
Best Editing  | Tonic of the Sea
Calamity
Crowhurst
Dark Beacon
Fashionista
Flin Flon
My Blood Banjo
Someday
Te Makutu
Life Time Achievement Award  | Simon Rumley
Tony Klinger
2019 Season Nominations & Award Winners[13][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

|

Best Feature Film  | Safe Spaces
13 Graves
All Eyes On You
Beyond Fury
Black Site
I Love My Mum
Lie Low
Sugar Cube
The Guard Of Auschwitz
Best Documentary Film  | The Little Count
Island Road
Karen Black on Acting
King for a Day
Millennium After The Millennium
My Martian Dad
National Anthem Girl
The Doll House
The Mentor
Best Short Film  | Beautified
An Unkind Word
Epiphany
From The Heart
Hold Your Breath
Ilford Lane
Little Milo
My Martian Dad
Old Hearts Cafe
The Goodbye
This Island
Best Havering Film  | The Guard Of Auschwitz
All In
Beautified
Epiphany
Gone
Human Cargo
Ilford Lane
Its Over
London Rampage
The Eliminator
Best Animation  | Scars
A Face That Launched A Thousand Ships
BIWY
Best Director  | Felix Maxim Eller (All Eyes On You)
Alberto Sciamma (I Love My Mum)
Daniel Schechter (Safe Space)
Darren Ward (Beyond Fury)
Dean Marriot (Stolen)
Drago Lazetich (Little Milo)
George Velez Junior (The Goodbye)
John Langridge (13 Graves)
Luke Jacobson (Sugar Cube)
Tom Paton (Black Site)
Best Screenplay  | Black Site
All Eyes on You
An Unkind Word
Beyond Fury
I Love My Mum
Safe Spaces
Sugar Cube
The Eliminator
The Good Bye
Human Cargo
Best Actor  | Kevin Leslie (13 Graves)
Eddie Linina (Stray Dog)
Ian Slade (Little Milo)
James Purefoy (Hold Your Breath)
Jannis Kuster (All Eyes On You)
Justin Long (Safe Spaces)
Matt Marasco (Sugar Cube)
Nick Roberts (Beyond Fury)
Shaun Medum (The Goodbye)
Tommy French (I Love My Mum)
Best Actress  | Kierston Wareing (I Love My Mum)
Claudia Grace McKell (The Guard Of Auschwitz)
Danni Thompson (Beyond Fury)
Emily Haigh (Beautified)
Fernanda Diniz (Red Devil)
Fran Drescher (Safe Spaces)
Lina Driemel (All Eyes On You)
Samantha Schnitzler (Black Site)
Susan Penhaligon (An Unkind Word)
Terri Dwyer (13 Graves)
Best Supporting Actor  | Giovanni Lombardo Radice (Beyond Fury)
Dan Van Husen (Beyond Fury)
Elvis Clausen (All Eyes On You)
Eneko Sanz (Stolen)
Frank Le Bouf (I Love My Mum)
Jim Liu (Little Milo)
Joe Paradavila (From The Heart)
Michael Mckell (13 Graves)
Richard Schiff (Safe Spaces)
Steven Barkoff (Red Devil)
Best Supporting Actress  | Kate Berlant (Safe Spaces)
Alice Ryan (Human Cargo)
Alexis Martinez (Cyanide Love)
Bright Stauber (Stolen)
Chameli Meir (Ilford Lane)
Elina Saleh (Lie Low)
Sally George (The Guard Of Aushwitz)
Tatiana Kotsimos (Sugar Cube)
Tippy Elgar (Screw Loose)
Best Editing  | Kharms
An Underground Affair
An Unkind Word
Cyandie Love
Epiphany
London Rampage
Safe Spaces
The Goodbye
The Lost Sheed
The Mentor
Life Time Achievement Award  | Richard Stanley
Simon Boswell
Special Commendation  | Gone (Billy Holland)
Beyond Fury (Darren Ward)
London Rampage (Greg Burridge)
My Name is Kozha
2020 Season Nominations & Award Winners[14][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

|

Best Feature Film  | Shibil
Doctors Case
I Scream on the Beach
Killer Tattooist
Kings of Mulberry Street
Puppet Killer
The Duckpond
Best Documentary Film  | High Flying Jade
Butcher Baronet
Chasing The Jeststream
Everybody Flies
Gift Of Hope
Last Tour Of Duty
Osprey
Patagonia Triple Crown
Reclaiming The Negative
Ruth Weiss: The Beat Goddess
Best Short Film  | Powerless
Afterlife Bureau
Cactus Boy
Dinner With Mom
Eugene Vs Humanity
I’m listening
New Woman
One Track Mind
Retrieval
Unregistered
Best Local Film  | Farside
Black Mass
Cactus Boy
Just A Girl
Killer Tattooist
Little Love
Next in Line
Osprey
Best Director  | Nikola Bozadzhiev (Shibil)
Ben Griffin (Ji)
Benjamin Noah (New Woman)
Coz Greenop (Sweet Street)
Daniel Harding (Dinner With Mum)
Jimmy Kelly (Polybius)
Nicole Pott (Powerless)
Sami Mustonen (Marras)
Best Screenplay  | I’m Listening
Afterlife Bureau
Cactus Boy
Conversations with a Cigarette
Duckpond
Honor Among Thieves
Marras
Next in Line
Powerless
Shibil
Best Actor  | Colin James O’Gorman (Eugene Vs Humanity)
Adam Scott-Houghton (Next in line)
Colin Ford (Cactus Boy)
Henry Haggard (I’ll Be There)
James Cosmo (Off Grid)
Mahmut Gökgöz (Sycamore)
Panatyot Mustakerski (Shibil)
Shane Attwooll (Farside)
Tom Atkins (Polibius)
Yi-Wen Chen (A Trip With Mom)
Best Actress  | Saara Runtti (Marras)
Ariadna Cabrol (Sweet Street)
Claudia Grace McKell (Just A Girl)
Dey Young (Fifty)
Jane Asher (One Track Mind)
Katie Marie Carter (Powerless)
Meryl Griffiths (Dinner With Mom)
Marjaana Maijala (I’m Listening)
Nika Burnet (Week With Rebecca)
Sacha Parkinson (Farside)
Best Supporting Actor  | Victor Von Schirach (The Duckpond)
Bogomil Naidenov (Shibil)
Garden Peaston (The Afterlife Bureau)
Michael B Tabb (Honor Among Thieves)
Stephen T. Shore (Polybius)
Steve Hodgetts (Next in Line)
Steven Brand (In The Campfire Light)
William B Davis (The Doctors Case)
Best Supporting Actress  | Georgie Flores (Cactus Boy)
Ashley Williams (Retrieval)
Denise Crosby (The Doctors Case)
Gergana Hristova (Shibil)
Jennifer Kelly (Polytbius)
Monika Hristova (Shibil)
Robyn Coffin (Town Hall)
Yiin-Shang Liou (A Trip With Mom)
Best Cinematography  | Marras
Balaika
Cactus Boy
House Red

New Woman
Shibil
Week With Rebecca
Best Score  | Shibil
A Trip With Mom
Cactus Boy
Fifty
Lavender
Marras
New Woman
Reclaiming The Negative
Jury Prize  | Choker
Paper House
Seconds Out
Parka
Anne
2021 Season Nominations & Award Winners[15][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

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Best Feature Film  | Maquis
Dogwood
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
I’m An Electric Lampshade
Last Call
Mr Johnson
The Blue Tooth Virgin
The Stars My Destination
Best Documentary Film  | Who Is James Payton
More Than Miyagi
Hello Sunshine
Mujereando: The Lament Of A Goddess
Rom Boys: 40 Years Of Rad
Safer in Silence
The Horror Crowd
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe
Best Short Film  | The Gesture and the Word
A New Leash On Life
Autumn Never Dies
Lunch Hour with the President
Officer Down
Queen Luck
The Snow Maze
The Two Of Us at the Edge of the World
Best Local Film  | Rom Boys: 40 Years Of Rad
Esther
Homeward Bound
On My Own
Stalling It
Stay Over
The Chain
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
The Suit Weareth The Man
77 seconds
Best Director  | Helen Alexis Yonov (The Gesture and the Word)
Caroline Ward & Jemma Moore (Stalling It)
Gavin Michael Booth (Last Call)
Joshua Benson (Queen Luck)
Pamela Perrine (Lunch Hour with the President)
Russell Brown (The Blue Tooth Virgin)
Sam Cadman (The Snow Maze)
Best Screenplay  | The Blue Tooth Virgin
Lunch House with the President
Maquis
On My Own
Queen Luck
Ruby Days
The Gesture and the word
Best Actor  | Lee Hunter (On My Own)
Anthony Quinlan (Asphyxiate)
Anthony Reynolds (Lunch House with the President)
Austin Peck (The Blue Tooth Virgin)
James Michael Tyler (The Gesture and the Word)
Martin Delaney (Officer Down)
Neil Hobbs (Its Going To Be Okay)
Toby Wynn-Davis (The Ghosts Of Borley Rectory)
Best Actress  | Christina Spruell (Queen Luck)
Ellie Ekers (Rottweiler)
Jemma Moore (Stalling It)
Michaela Longden (Asphyxiate)
Michaela McManus (Monsters and Muses)
Rebekah Stein (Queen Luck)
Sarah Booth (Last Call)
Sophie McBean
Best Supporting Actor  | Josef Altin (Officer Down)
Ben Turner (Officer Down)
Bryce Johnson (The Blue Tooth Virgin)
Craig Conway (Eulogy)
Lukas Barnett (Calf Rope)
Paul Dooley (The Gesture and the Word)
Renato Gianoli (Living Unscathed)
Vinnie Jones (I Am Vengeance: Retaliation)
Best Supporting Actress  | Caroline Ward (Stalling It)
Alejandra Gollas (Love Is Not Love)
Erika Christensen (Proxy)
Fatima Plazas (Maquis)
Linda Zhu (Handscape)
Michelle Mitchenor (August Us)
Nicole La Librete (The Gesture and the Word)
Toyah Willcox (The Ghosts of Borley Rectory)
Best Cinematography  | The Snow Maze
Maquis
Mr. Johnson
Officer Down
Robert The Robot
The Gesture and the Word
The Smuggler
Queen Luck
Best Score  | The Smuggler
Handscape
Mujereando: The Lament Of A Goddess
Robert The Robot
Special Delivery
The Gesture and the Word
The Snow Maze
The Two Of Us at the Edge of the World
Jury Prize  | A New Leash On Life
Autumn Never Dies
Blud
I am Vengence: Retaliation
My Darling Christopher
On My Own
Proxy
Single Line Theory
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe
The Two Of Us at the Edge of the World
Audience Choice  | Best Feature Film – Election Night
Best Short Film – Asphyxiate
Best Documentary – Who Is James Payton
2022 Season Nominations & Award Winners[16][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

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Best Feature Film  | Sweet Disaster
Daddy's Girl
New Material
Pretty Boy
The Lady
The Swap
Steps
Best Documentary Film  | Fraser Syndrome & Me
A Better Life
Becontree: 100 Years On
Cinema Now
Cry of the Forests
Micropubs – The New Local
One last Spin
The Tears of Bea Smit
Best Short Film  | The Magician
Colossus
Divertimento
Human Trash
Old Windows
The Other One
Time & Tide
Wool
Best Foreign Language Film  | Human Trash
Beats
Dana
Moskover Forever
Swamp
Sweet Disaster
The Lady
The Other One
Best Local Film  | Visitor
Becontree: 100 Years On
Cinema Now
Collier Row Then And Now
Fortina 2
In Two Minds
My London Lullaby
See What She Did
Best Animation  | Live.
Claws
Crappy Christmas
Family Tree
Fortina 2
Best Director  | Keyvan Sheikhalishahi (Divertimeto)
Julian Richards (Daddy's Girl)
Kenichi Ugana (The Empty Flowerpot)
Laura Lehmus (Sweet Disaster)
Lukas Baier (The Other One)
Marcel Walz (Pretty Boy)
Micky Cornwell (Court Number 5)
Best Screenplay  | Old Windows
Human Trash
New Material
Pretty Boy
Sweet Disaster
The Empty Flowerpot
The Lady
The Other One
Best Actor  | Larry Lamb (Old Windows)
Arlos Acrrekootxea (Human Trash)
Costas Mandylor (Daddy's Girl)
Eddy Munoz (Consequences)
Kazuki Abe (The Empty Flower Pot)
Paul Bradley (The man at the bottom of the Garden)
Sebastian Somma (The Lady)
Sebastian Edtbauer (The Other One)
Best Actress  | Tiggy Bayley (Tildypops)
Friederike Kempter (Sweet Disaster)
Jamie Windstone (Court Number 5)
Laura Bayston (Old Windows)
Nera Elizalde (Hikikomori)
Paula Gallego (Accomplices)
Sarah-Jane Potts (The Magician)
Vey Straker (Wool)
Best Supporting Actor  | Joey Rasdien (New Material)
Bambadjan Bamda (Wasted Seed)
Bob Barrett (The Magican)
Jason Segade (Wool)
Jesse Moss (Daddy's Girl)
John Neisler (Colossus)
Julian Lehr (Beats)
Matthew Ventre (Dinner for Two)
Best Supporting Actress  | Lena Urzendowsky (Sweet Disaster)
Britt McKillip (Daddy's Girl)
Desiree Noferini (The Lady)
Giulia Goldammer (Beats)
Heather Grace Hancock (Pretty Boy)
Julia Heinze (The Other One)
Natalie Martins (Shear)
Sammy Winward (Lead Belly)
Best Cinematography  | Sweet Disaster
Divertimento
Pretty Boy
Steps
The Empty Flowerpot
The Magican
The Other One
Old Windows
Best Score  | The Other One
Divertimento
Human Trash
Moskover Forever
Pretty Boy
Sweet Disaster
You Might Get Lost
Commendations  | Anonymous
Dana
My London Lullaby
Pretty Boy
The Empty Flower Pot
Wool
2023 Season Nominations & Award Winners[17][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

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Best Feature Film  | Out and About
Coyote
Good Guy with a Gun
Publish or Perish
The Wife and her House Husband
Walking Against the Rain
Best Documentary Film  | Danny's Red Box
And Outside Life Goes On
Drawn To War
Langford Tales
Morning Without Evening
Ray of Hope HAWFC – The Gym of Champions
The Stevie Project
Queen of Hearts
Best Short Film  | The Magic World of Miracles
Care
Five Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-Seven Pounds
My Dear Aunt Sally
Roises Unicorn Delight
Sensibility
Under The Influence
Wanderland
Wild Angel
Best Foreign Language Film  | A Butterfly's Heart
Beloc The Blind
Broken Wings
Denali
Left of Chopin
Moja
No Kidding
Rolling Marbles
The online Shop
Best Local Film  | Black and White Duppy
Mothers and Daughters
Playing Away
Split Check
Walking Against The Rain
Best Animation  | Triskelion
Fig Leaves
Morning Without Evening
Best No or Low Budget Film  | A Touch of Vengeance
Claudia
Danny's Red Box
Delirum Tremens
Encore
Split Check
Best Director  | Peter Callahan (Out and About)
David Liban (Publish or Perish)
Dustin Curtis Murphy (Coyote)
John Mossman (Good Guy with a Gun)
Nicole Sarah Fry (Desires and delusions)
Simon Smith (Murmur)
Tom Procida (My Dear Aunt Sally)
Best Screenplay  | Little Mary (Duncan Paveling)
Everything Is Out To Get Me (Dustin Curtis Murphy)
Left of Chopin (Sayoko Kitamura and Yoshino Takemoto)
Out and About (Peter Callahan)
Pig Killer (Chad Ferrin)
Publish or Perish (David Liban)
When The Clapping Stops (Sam Briggs)
Best Actor  | Ralph Ineson (Waving)
Alfie Stewart (Monico Perseus)
Brody Stowers (My Dear Aunt Sally)
Jake Busey (Pig Killer)
Leigh Gill (The Fifth Generation)
Michael Begley (Care)
Mindaugas Balabonas (A Butterfly's Heart)
Reece Douglas (Walking Against the Rain)
Best Actress  | Becky Lindsay (Burnt Toast and Cigarettes)
Ailish Symons (Coyote)
Bronaugh Waugh (Murmur)
Claire Louise Frost (Sister Karras)
Jemma Moore (Eric)
Katherine Casto (Weak)
Therica Wilson-Read (Coyote)
Best Supporting Actor  | Sam Barnard (Monico Perseus)
Craig Conway (Burnt Toast and Cigarettes)
Jack Cain (Good Guy with a Gun)
Rory Wilton (Encore)
Sule Rimi (Stillness)
Best Supporting Actress  | Tiffany Bedwell (Good Guy with a Gun)
Bridget Regen (Weak)
Emily Wyatt (The Last Heist)
Rhea Bailey (Stillness)
Best Cinematography  | The Light That No One Sees (Pasindu Goldmann)
Beloc The Blind (Yaroslav Prokhorov)
Blue Boy (Jannis Schelenz)
Encore (Elliot Millson)
Five Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-Sven Pounds (John Orphan)
Best Score  | Langford Tales (Christos Andreou)
Beloc The Blind (Nerea Alberdi)
Borrowed Time (Kristen Price)
Encore (Reuben Squirrel)
Everything is out to get me (Thom Robson)
Little Mary (Adam Radmall)
Out and About (Jano Manzali)
Stillness (Jered Sorkin)
The Jury Prize  | Encore
Audience Choice  | Best Feature Film – Coyote
Best Feature Film – Left of Chopin
Best Feature Film – Publish or Perish
Best Short Film – Care
Best Short Film – Eric
Best Documentary – Drawn to War
Best Performance – Danny Ashkenasi (The Pit and Pendulum – A Musciabre)
Best Performance – Alan Cooper (Claudia)
2024 Season Nominations & Award Winners[18][12] Award  | Nominee / Award Winner

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Best British Film  | Fyre Rises
Kill Your Lover
Melodrive
Mr Doom
The Move
10 Swords and the Moon
Best Documentary Film  | #RevolutionaryOne
Big Smooth
Diary of an Elephant Orphan
Kim's Video
Ray of Hope
The Gardener
Best Short Film  | (Dis)connected
Art
Fitting Descriptions
Lies on the Line
Mouse!
Opening Up
The Sea
The Snip
Tits
Best International Film  | Folie A Famille
Hans Crosses the Rubicon
Indelible Memories
Old Righteous Blues
Once and for Real
Sleeping Close
Somparire
Villains Inc
What We Don't Say
Best Local Film  | Beholden
Burnt Flowers
Fyre Rises
The Grey Room
The Night Blooms
Wuss
Best Animation  | Scale
Supertramp
Best No or Low Budget Film  | Alleviate
Bin Day
Hearts Desire
All I Remember
The Lure
The Night Blooms
Best Director  | Ben Kernow (Art)
Derek Shimoda (The Gardener)
Kate Surinskaya (Tea)
Muneera Sallies (Old Righteous Blues)
Mark Schlichter (Class Trip Chaos)
Max Mir (Walking Fernando)
Ryan Singh & Nikila Cole (Ray of Hope)
Best Screenplay  | Alex Sereno (Folie A Familie)
Andy Kastelic (The Fox)
Daniel Keeble (Alleviate)
Elliot Warren (Hard Times)
Jamie Effros (Big George)
Kammy Darweish (The Consequence)
Matt Moen (Villains Incorporated)
María Magdalena Cotun (Teodoro)
Best Actor  | Alexander Lincoln (Losing It)
Ayden Croy (Old Righteous Blues)
Danny Sutcliffe (Mr Doom)
Ed White (Under the Blue)
Elliot Warren (Hard Times)
Gary Beadle (Opening Up)
Jake Hall (Big George)
Kammy Darweish (The Consequence)
Best Actress  | Ania Marson (Ruth)
Angela Harvey (Her Castle)
Charlotte Coleman (A Positive Contribution)
Fabienne Piolini-Castle (Walking Fernando)
Lucy Davis (Have a Good Day)
Steph Parry (Under the Blue)
Tamzin Outhwaite (Opening Up)
Best Supporting Actor  | Colin Mochrie (Villains Inc)
Greg Sestero (The Founder Effect)
Javier Bardem (Walking Fernando)
Luis Cao (Teodoro)
Oscar Reed (The Interpreter)
Simon Callow (Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock N Roll)
Best Supporting Actress  | Chos (Teodoro)
Dee Wallace (Roswell Delirium)
Leslie Ash (Ruth)
Megan Alderson (Melodrive)
Michelle Collins (Melodrive)
Nicola Walker (Under the Blue)
Prue Griffiths (Bin Day)
Best Editing  | Big George
Far
Hans Crosses the Rubicon
Lemon Tree
Old Righteous Blues
Under the Blue
Fairplay
Best Cinematography  | Adrian Wolfson (Deserters)
Caelan Benn (Have a Good Day)
Christoph Iwanow and Conrad Lobst (Class Trip Chaos)
Jannis Schelenz (The Countryman)
Pui Man Leung (Saving Art)
Best Score  | Dan Tait (The Founder Effect)
Edward George King (Old Righteous Blues)
Jorge Magaz (Teodoro)
Lionel Gaget (Angel Touch) (Third Eye)
Marco Mancini (Somparire)
Sean McAllister (Strings)
The Strange Blue Dreams (Socks)
Matt Olivio (Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep)
Best Original Concept  | Art
Black Sunflowers
Chairs
Children of the Pines
Far
Layers of Lies
Lies on the Line
Roswell Delirium
Third Eye
First Time Filmmaker  | Daniel Ellerby (Her Castle)
Emma Richardson (Unthinkable Conversations)
Ian Bartholomew (The Sea)
Kammy Darweish (The Consequence)
Lee Bamsy (Aborted)
Mitchell Tolliday (Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock N Roll)
Nadine Wilson (Wuss)
Best Production Design  | Her Castle
Kill Your Lover
Lies on the Line
Progeny
Ruth
War Blade
Hardangerfolk
Burnt Flowers
Outstanding Contribution  | Ark Pictures
The Jury Prize  | The Consequence
Audience Choice  | Opening Up (Short Film)
Sleeping Close (Feature Film)
Ray of Hope (Documentary)
Steph Parry - Under the Blue (Performance)
Louise-Ann Monro - Beholden (Performance)

## See also

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* Spencer Hawken
* Romford Horror Film Festival

## References

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