Welcome to our shortlist for City Lights Film Festival’s 12th edition. Congratulations to all of the nominees.
BEST UK SHORT FILM
Kitty
Time’s Up, I’m Afraid
To Catch A Siren
Unauthorised Absence
We’re All Black Down Here
BEST SCREENPLAY
MEAT
Still Life
STUCK
To Catch A Siren
The Offer
Unauthorised Absence
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Angela Neil (Static)
Hayden Maclean (FarEye)
James William Mellors (We’re All Black Down Here)
Ola Shoyinka (Every Time I See a Yellow Car)
Rob Chiu (Chinaman)
Ruby Phelan (The Last Pancake)
BEST DIRECTOR
Emma V.F. (Water Cooler)
James Button (Times Up, I’m Afraid)
James William Mellors (We’re All Black Down Here)
Georgia Parris (Unauthorised Absence)
Guy Taylor (One Shot of Espresso)
Isaac Money (Marloo)
BEST CASTING
Ant Hall (STUCK)
Bailey Frances (We’re All Black Down Here)
Emma Sylvester (Unauthorised Absence)
Jessica Jefferies (Kitty)
Sarah Leung (The Wolf)
Tommy Ross-Williams and Sid Strickland (Rubinstein’s)
BEST ACTRESS
Alison Thea-Skot (Times Up, I’m Afraid)
Ella Maisy Purvis (Kitty)
Lauren Budd (One Shot of Espresso)
Olivia D’Lima (Tell Your Face)
Rebecca Baker (Drowning)
Roxanne Van Rompaey (Rocks Don’t See It)
BEST ACTOR
Alexi Kaye Campbell (All Change)
Anton Lessor (Rubinstein’s)
Charlie Rex (Deli Meat)
Ewan Mitchell (Still Life)
Rob Metson (Marloo)
Sia Alipour (A Good Day Will Come)
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Last Pancake – Luke Deering (Production Designer), Sidonie Roberts (Costume Designer)
Hush Little One – Moira Lam (Production Design); Marta Cernovskaja (Costume & Creature Designer)
Uncle Artoo – Andrew Bennett (Production Designer), Rob Cameron (Set Decorator), Maya James (Costume Designer)
STATIC – James Hadrill (Costume Designer), Rosalind Grégoire (Production Designer)
The Three Graces – Jasmine Fry (Art Director), Nicole Sarah Fry (Costume Designer)
Still Life – Hannah Rawson (Production Designer)
BEST COMPOSER / SOUNDTRACK
STATIC – Sound Warriors @ Molinare
Hush Little One – Michael Griggs
Drowning – Crystalla Serghiou (as Crystalla Lola Serghio) (Composer)
Time’s Up, I’m Afraid – James Morris (Composer)
The Three Graces – Gabor Meszaros (sound)
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
A Good Day Will Come
Pale Sun
Rocks Don’t See It
The Burial of the Black Cat
THE DREAM IS A SNAIL
VULTURES
Water Cooler
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Die Lampe (The Lamp)
I Saw An Ankle
La Noche de Anoche
Now That You’re Back
Oculus
The Ambrose Finch
Well Wishes
