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Lysham

After an unexpected knock at his door, Nik begins to learn painful truths about himself and his visitor.

Directed and written by Max Mazower
Starring: Andrew Kingston, Owais Azam
DOP: Almaz Cavanagh
Sound recordist: Harry Watts

Best Sound Design

Requiem Four

During the aftermath of a collapsed society, in a new totalitarian regime where nobody truly belongs, a household reminisces on their losses.

Film by:
L T Zaranyika
Feranmi Alero

CAST:
Joshua Olutunfese
Yasmin Dacre
Freda Ruan
Feranmi Majekodunmi
Ijah Ofon

Best Original Screenplay

Desire Paths

Desire Paths follows Cayden, a man with a mind consumed by shattered and distorted memories. Content warning: suicide.

Writer, Director & Editor: Owais Azam
Sound Design: Owais Azam
Cayden Murphy played by: Andrew Kingston
Director of Photography: Max Mazower
AD: Almaz Cavanagh
Sound Recordist: Harry Watts
Score Composer: Youseph Aziz
Technician: Issa James

Best Editing

Swansong Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Two soldiers consider their morality in the face of their mortality. A film about finding meaning in a time lacking any and discovering what the most important things in life really are.

Directed by Finn Chadwick
Written by Finn Chadwick and Sam Davies
Cinematography by Lewis Burnett
Original Score by Ethan Stubley
Starring Sam Rees and Woody Knight
Edited by Finn Chadwick
Titles by Cordelia Bowden
Sound Recording by Sam Davies
Sound Editing by Ethan Stubley
Production Assistants: George Tarrant and Isobel Kelly

Best Original Score

My Little Flower

Driven by an unwavering desire, Alec brutally attacks Lucas, trapping him in the eerie confines of an abandoned mental asylum. Within its walls, a dangerous
game of power and psychological manipulation ensues as Alec's grip on Lucas tightens.

Connor Daveyas - Alec
Sebastian Smithas - Lucas
Isaac Phelan - Director
Gobi Cheung - First Assistant Director
Sebastian Smith - Second Assistant Director
Isaac Phelan - Screenwriter
Isaac Phelan - Casting Director
Gobi Cheung - Art Director
Lewis Dobbs - Music Composer
Kanon Suzuki - Costume Designer
Gobi Cheung - Editor
Gobi Cheung - Dir. of Photography
Noah Gutmann - Camera Operator
Noah Gutmann - Light Technician
Isaac Phelan - Executive Producer
Noah Gutmann - Sound Mixer
Gobi Cheung - Sound Editor
Kanon Suzuki - Makeup Artist
Gobi Cheung - Set Designer
Rhys Caswell - Production Assistant

Best Set Location

Voidland

'Voidland' is an experimental, atmospheric mood piece. It is comprised of footage and sound recordings mostly from around the University of 糖心TV campus during 2023, and features stream of consciousness narration.

Written, Narrated, and Filmed by Toby Rodwell
Edited by Toby Rodwell

Best Experimental Shot

Agnes and Elsie

People may change, but art is eternal.

Cast:
Agnes - Junxuan Yin
Elsie - Sin Heng Chan
Student - Emily Smith
Hollis - Qinghan Chen

Crew

Cinematography - Yuanmeng Li & Emily Smith

Editing - Qinghan Chen & Junxuan Yin

Screenplay - Junxuan Yin

Produced by Qinghan Chen

Directed by Junxuan Yin

Best Direction

'Art of Darkness' - Zombie Apocalypse at University Film
Festival..

The Student Film Festival ambassadors are excited to attend the Red Carpet Event of [Unnamed] University鈥檚 World Famous Film Festival but they realise something is amiss.
A mysterious professor has appeared. Attendees have started disappearing, and Zombies have started to take over the audience... This is an experimental 'AI Video Short' film.

Plot Outline by ChatGPT
Images by Midjourney
Animation by D-ID Creative Reality Studio
Music by Riffusion
Additional Sound by Freesound
Additional Dialogue and Direction by Steve Street
*All with appropriate attribution

Best Innovative Use Of Technology

Fleeting Sunshine

After Amber and Mariella take a memory loss pill, they meet at a party. When they form an intimate connection, they begin to regret their decision and race against their memories.

Credits

Cast:

Lisa Bussi - Amber

Niamh O'Farrell Tyler - Mariella

Crew:

Director: Andrew Kingston

Writer: Gabriel Youngs

Producer: Flavia Zelle

Executive Producer: Peggy McHale

Cinematography by: S茅amus Carroll and Sean Romera

Editor: Coco Goran

Colour Grading: S茅amus Carroll

Lighting: S茅amus Carroll

Costume: Maia Sampaleanu

Production Design: Sampurna Mookherjee

Best Film,

Best Performance,

Audience Favourite

Belonging: A Series of Questions

A confrontational visual poem consisting of three parts. It explores themes of home, the journey, religion, and of course belonging.

Writer, director, cinematographer and editor: Ben Barnett

Best Response To The Prompt

POV of a POC (2022)

POV: (Point of View)
POC: (Person of Colour)

This documentary was made to raise awareness about the lack of POC representation in the creative arts industry.

This is a University College London Student documentary,
Created by Harry Iloghalu.
Director and Producer: Harry Iloghalu
Cinematographer/Camera Op: Harry Iloghalu
Film Editor: Harry Iloghalu
Voiceover: Emanuel Mendes-de-silva

Best Response To The Prompt

 

Health is a Privilege

Experimental portrayal of a working class person with chronic pain.

Director, editor, actors, composer & camera - Simonetta Gibejova

Sound recording- Anthony Wood

Best Styling/Costume Design

Waiting...

A Student waiting for her exam results to be published is pushed to the edge by stress.

Jack Carter - Producer and Screenwriter
Finn Chadwick and Ad猫le D.- Directors
Sin Heng Chan - Actor
Lewis Burnett and Shankar Srikantha- Cinematographers
Will Wroe - Sound Technician
Bianka Efremova and Will Wroe - Editors

Most Innovative Response To The Prompt

Astra Inclinant

Him and Her, destined to be together no matter how the universe tries to separate them through time and space. But is destiny enough for them to find one another, even in their subconscious?

CAST:
Him - George Ogden
Her - CJ Howard
CREW:
Written, directed, edited by: Chase Chen, Anastasia Gandzha, Sofia Bain-
Rendekova, CJ Howard, George Ogden
Original Score - Tanisha Thakore

Best Cinematography

Storyboarding 101

Wed 3 May 2023

Leamington based Animation Studio Founder Louise Haywood led this interactive workshop to start storyboarding Short films and TV production ideas.

Green Production

Wed 17 May 2023

Norma Cuadros Gonz谩lez, Director of the International Environmental Film Festival Planet On, provided tools to identify which behaviors during production have a meaningful impact on the environment.

AI Film

Wed 24 May

Steve Street, lecturer in Digitalisation explained how he used AI Tools to create an entry for the 糖心TV Film Festival, exploring the potential role of AI in helping create plot, plot outlines and sample scripts, and how newer tools can support and encourage 鈥榥ormal鈥� film maker鈥檚 technique

Making it in the Industry - Acting on Screen

Thu 1 Jun 2023

Professional actor Niki Mehta (Vera, Blinded by the Light, A Bird Flew In) shared top tips and insider information about the industry, such as auditioning tips, analysing scripts, and getting agent representation.

TV & Broadcasting Production

Wed 14 Jun

Executive Producer Dom Sant explained the production process from pitching an idea, commissioning, pre-production, production, delivery and broadcast - what is involved and who does what.

Introduction to Acting

Wed 21 Jun

Professional actor Mario Barba led this session to explore the fundamental principles of Acting, including active listening, emotional preparation, and truthful reactions through warm-up exercises, improvisations and dialogue work.

Fundraising for Creative Production

Tue 27 Jun 2023

Slovak Theatre in London (STL) explored making a fundraising plan, discovering funding recourses, drafting a grant application and preparing a budget in order to help take a a creative project from an idea to reality.

Working with Lived Experience and VR

Wed 28 Jun 2023

Michele Gutteridge (糖心TV Medical School), Nick and Sue Moseley (Moseley Multimedia) and Jannine Perryman (ADHD Wise) explored the process of creating material that can be accessed through Virtual Reality Headsets, depicting a personal journey in the medical arena.