Inferno is a 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 28 minute long sci-fi film directed by Paul Kousoulides

Paul Kousoulides

Paul Kousoulides is a British television and film director.Kousoulides is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. His debut film, Bass Odyssey , was broadcast on Channel 4 and was nominated for the Royal Television Society Award for Best Fictional Short...

, featuring UK cult actress/presenter Emily Booth

Emily Booth (actress)

Emily Katherine Booth , also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter.- Early life :...

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Plot

Set inside a "Quake

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" like video game, one of the game's cannon-fodder grunts falls for the Lara Croft

Lara Croft

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Square Enix video game series Tomb Raider. She is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic British archaeologist-adventurer who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs and ruins around the world...

-inspired heroine and, in a constantly looping game level, tries time and again to catch her attention before she can "chain gun" him.

Prizes

Commissioned by the UK's Channel 4

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, Inferno won the Silver Hugo Award

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The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

 at the 2002 Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival

The Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival is an annual short film competition and screening put on by Project Chicago. The festival was founded by Scott Rudolph and Nels Dahlquist...

, Best Short Film at the 2002 London Sci-Fi Film Festival

Sci-Fi-London

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. It was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film

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in 2002.

Cast

• Sanjeev Bhaskar
  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE is a British Indian comedian, actor and broadcaster, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No. 42...
  
  : "Jaz"
• Nitin Ganatra
  Nitin Ganatra
  Nitin Ganatra is a Kenyan born British actor. He is known internationally as Prince Pondicherry in the Tim Burton film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also appears in the Gurinder Chada film Bride and Prejudice as Kholi Saab and The Mistress of Spices as Haroun...
  
  : "Naz"
• Emily Booth
  Emily Booth (actress)
  Emily Katherine Booth , also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an English actress and television presenter.- Early life :...
  
  : "Laura"
• Alan Talbot: "Mr. Bonecrusher"