Sundance London Short Film Competition Winners Announced

Sundance London Short Film Competition Winners Announced Russian Roulette by Ben Aston wins Official Selection Award and will screen as part of Sundance London official programme

Shadows of Time by Sambit Banerjee wins Community Choice Award

Posted Apr 15, 2014

The O2, 15 April 2014 Sundance Institute and The O2 today announced the winners of the Short Film Competition for the third Sundance London film and music festival, 25-27 April at The O2: Russian Roulette by Ben Aston has won the Official Selection Award and Shadows of Time by Sambit Banerjee has won the Community Choice Award. Both films will screen at the festival and both filmmakers will receive prizes including a three-night stay at The Langham Hotel in London. Also announced today was a new prize: that a selection of the finalists' films will screen on London Live.

The Short Film Competition is presented in association with London Live and is a partnership with Talenthouse, Ravensbourne, and with guidance from Sundance London organisers, Robert Redford, Sundance Enterprises, Sundance Institute which annually hosts the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A. and AEG Europe. Short film entries were to relate to a theme of Making a go of it': stories about moving forward in life, love or loss and the pursuit of inspiration.' Submissions between three and five minutes in length were accepted.

The Official Selection-winning entry was selected by two juries on either side of the Atlantic. The first included: Josic Cadoret, Talent Development Coordinator, Film London; Kat Lo, writer-director; Ben Mallaby, Senior Lecturer, Digital Film Production, Ravensbourne; David Segal Hamilton, Story Editor & Talent Tracker at the Film Fund, BFI; and Sarah Sheerman-Chase, Events and Awards Producer, WIFTV. A second jury included: John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival; Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival; and Charlie Reff, Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. The Community Choice-winning entry received the highest number of public votes in a two week period of online voting.

Additional finalists for the competition were: 1 on 1 by Joe Talbot; Making the News by Daniele Baron & Conor OGrady; Red Onions by Nadia Lachman; My City by Robert Ryan; Family Business by Mark Drake; Heavens Secret A Film About Love After Death by Ed Wiles; Brothers by Aleksandra Czenczek; The Elevator Pitch by Simon Ryninks; Redemption by Laura Lisete Roosaar; and Art of Motion by Rhodri Williams. All winning and finalist films are available for immediate viewing at sundance-london.com/short-film-competition.

Best, from Surrey filmmaker William Oldroyd, and Extranjero, from Daniel Lumb and Crinan Campbell, won the Sundance London Short Film Competition in previous years.

Tickets for all Sundance London films, panels and music performances are now on sale at sundance-london.com. Music performers include Archive and Dele Sosimi, one of the original members of Fela Kuti's band. Sundance London will include 39 films (21 features and 18 shorts), including Fruitvale Station (Director: Ryan Coogler), Blue Ruin (Director: Jeremy Saulnier), Frank (Director: Lenny Abrahamson), Hits (Director: David Cross), They Came Together (Director: David Wain), The Voices (Director: Marjane Satrapi) and The Trip to Italy (Director: Michael Winterbottom). All screenings will take place at Cineworld at The O2.

For more information visit sundance-london.com or follow @SundancefestUK on Twitter.

Short Film Competition

Russian Roulette (Director : Ben Aston, Screenwriter : Oli Fenton) London seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a libidinous cosmonaut on chat roulette...

Official Selection Winner

Shadows of Time (Director and screenwriter: Sambit Banerjee) 52 people died in the 7/7 terrorist attack on London and hundreds were severely injured. Men, women and children of different nationalities and faith were all equally affected. Shadows of Time is a poignant tale of love, loss and life as seen through the eyes of an ordinary Muslim woman whose husband died in the horrific incident.

Community Choice Award Winner

ENDS

Images for Press:

Images for press are available at image.net , sundance.org/images and ftp.premiercomms.com (login ID: sunlon14; password RN85Fh4f). All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of one-time reproduction and only when including proper image credits and/or Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration or reproduction of logos and photos is strictly prohibited.

All Sundance London Press enquiries:

General / Film Claire Gascoyne / Patrick Reed / Natasha Unalkat

Online Elizabeth Taylor

Music Oliver Lavery

Accreditation Simone Devlin

Tel: 020 7292 8330

Email: firstname.surname@premiercomms.com or sundancelondon@premiercomms.com

premiercomms.com

Notes to the Editor:

Sundance London

The Sundance London film and music festival is a partnership between Robert Redford, Sundance Enterprises, Sundance Institute and The O2. The third Sundance London will take place from 25-27 April at The O2 and will host the international and UK premieres of films fresh from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., as well as live music performances, panels and events.

For more information visit sundance-london.com or follow @SundancefestUK on Twitter.

Sundance London is supported by: Lead Partners Kickstarter, Sundance Channel Global; Supporting Partners HP, Internet Explorer, The Langham, London, and the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development ; Media Partners Empire, The International New York Times, London Live and Time Out; and Official Providers ASCAP, Cineworld, Chicago Rib Shack, Dolby, East City Films, Gibson Brands, Heineken, H.R. Owen, Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc,

LINK:	http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/sundance-london-short-fil...
	See more stories from sundance

Most recent headlines