The Short Film Completion Fund 2007
The Short Film Completion Fund is run by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund.
A fund of £50,000 has been developed to support filmmakers and production companies in securing vital funds for the completion of short film projects that have already been shot but lack the fund to finish.
Maya Vision International is the managing company for the fund.
Short Film Completion Fund
Juvenile
(12 mins)
Dir: China Moo-Young
Prod: Jess Ensor
The bittersweet story of a single parent father with a teenaged daughter, and the day she brings home her new boyfriend.
Juvenile was nominated for the Teenage Jury Prize at the 5th London Short Film Festival.
Official Selection - Sundance 2008
Official Selection - Berlinale 2008
Official Selection - Oberhausen International Film Festival 2008.
One Of Us
(12 mins)
Dir: Clint Dyer
Prod: Julian Bennett and Mark Straker
The dynamic pace of Quincy's basketball match soon calms when he is faced with a life changing dilemma.
One of Us has won the following awards: Best Drama at the Very Short Movie Festival in Los Angeles and Best Actress at the BFM Film Festival.
Walking Away
(16 mins)
Dir: Joanna Carrick
Prod: David NewbornFalaise has lost her keys. In the next two hours the whole of the rest of her life will be decided.
Official Selection - Los Angeles Short Film Festival 2008
A Fitting Tribute
(14 mins)
Dir: Daniel Cormack
Prod: Daniel CormackA naive local news reporter on a 'death-knock' gets more than he bargains for from the grieving mother of a young road traffic incident victim.
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Official Selection - 13th Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
Official Selection - 23rd Warsaw International Film Festival
A Fitting Tribute won Best Screenplay and Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Nickel Independent Film Festival.
Writing Dachau
(7 mins)
Dir: Genevieve Simms
Prod: Genevieve Simms
A partly-dramatised reconstruction of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, as recalled by journalist Marguerite Higgins.
Beyond
(10 mins)
Dir: Gavin Boyter
Prod: Gavin Boyter
Craig and Julie had one perfect date, except she died at the end of it. Now Craig is romancing Julie's ghost.
Jehovah's Witness
(14 mins)
Dir: Alain Kramer
Prod: Alain Kramer
A Jehovah's Witness gets more than he bargained for when ne calls upon a family in the middle of a domestic crisis.
Official Selection - Encounters Short Film Festival
Jehovah's Witness has won the following awards: Audience Award for Best Narrative Film Short and the Grand Jury Prize for Jude Akuwudike (for special achievement in acting role) at the Red Rock Film Festival, Utah.
Airlock, or How To Say Goodbye In Space
(15 mins)
Dir: Chris Boyle
Prod: Laura Tunstall
Trapped hundreds of miles from the Earth, two pioneers of the American Space Race await the news that will determine their survival.
Airlock was nominated for the Shine Award at the Bradford International Film Festival 2008
Church Going
(14 mins)
Dir: Ashley & Russell Inglis
Prod: Ashley & Russell InglisWhen a young photographer stops in to take a few pictures of a country church he becomes the unwitting audience for a vicar who has lost his congregation - and pretty much everything besides.