Shnit International Shortfilmfestival Cape Town winners announced

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Shnit International Shortfilmfestival Cape Town winners announced --

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:11

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shnit International Shortfilmfestival came to an end on 11 October when over 200 filmmakers and guests went to the Cape Town Club to see the awarding of the Made In South Africa jury and audience awards 2015, as well as the premiering of this year s Realtime films. Thirteen films competed this year for the national awards across fiction, documentary and experimental genres.

Brett Williams and Hayden Phipps The Parcel opened the night by taking home the Made in South Africa Audience award. Nominees included Nosipho Dumisa and Travis Taute s Nommer 37 and Thati Peele s Lerato. Audience award voting was held digitally for the first time this year through a system developed by Cape Town specialists Qurio and implemented in shnit cities all around the world.

South African jurors Bridget Pickering and Ian Rijsdijk spoke on behalf of a jury that also included Sibs Shongwe la Mer, praising all of the films in competition and drawing attention to the challenges of choosing just one film to take home the Made in South Africa jury prize, before the nominees Simon Wood s Orbis, Greg Bakker s Windstil and Zamo Mkhwanazi s The Call were announced and screened to the receptive audience.

The Realtime Competition

The night culminated in the premiering of the Realtime competition films 2015. The competition saw filmmakers Thea Small, Willem Grobler and Bongani Vincent each given 72 hours to produce a completed short film over the course of the shnit festival weekend.

In the fifth year of the programme, shnit partnered with the South African Film Orchestra and Atmosphere Film Audio collective to run the competition in two stages, with the first being an open composers competition in which South African composers were invited to submit scores inspired by one of three themes, Injustice, Retribution or Redemption. Three scores were selected from 41 entries and one given to each of the three filmmakers as inspiration in turn for their film.

For maximum effect, the South African Film Orchestra was present on awards night, playing live alongside the premiering of the films. The winning film by audience vote was The Great Gatsby: Redemption.

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