TCM Classic Shorts Film Competition
Encyclopedia
2006
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | Silence Is Golden Silence Is Golden (film) Silence Is Golden is a 15 minute award winning film written and directed by Chris Shepherd and produced by Maria Manton. Set in 1970s Britain, it tells the story of a 10 year old boy's obsession with his seemingly simple minded neighbour Dennis. The film mixes live action with various form of... |
Chris Shepherd Chris Shepherd Chris Shepherd is a BAFTA nominated television/film writer and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool in 1967. He is mainly known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature.... |
Maria Manton | Slinky Pictures Slinky Pictures Slinky Pictures was a London based film and television production company. The company was created in 2000 by Maria Manton and Chris Shepherd and closed on its tenth anniversary in 2010. It animation and hybrid output included commercials, short films, pop promos and television shows... |
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| Second Prize | Tokyo Jim | Jamie Rafn | Doug Wade | ||
| Third Prize | Venom | John Hayes | John McDonnell | ||
| Runner Up | Cubs | Tom Harper | Lisa Williams | ||
| Runner Up | Icicle Melt | Amy Neil | Andrew Bonner |
2005
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | Jane Lloyd | Happy | Nick Sutherland | ||
| Second Prize | End Game | Andrew Greener | Sarah Aynesworth | ||
| Third Prize | The Banker | Hattie Dalton | Kelly Broad | ||
| Runner Up | The Clap | Geoff Lindsey Geoff Lindsey Geoff Lindsey is a British writer and director who has written episodes for television series including the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders and The Bill.... |
Alan Dewshurst | ||
| Runner Up | Ashes | Corinna Faith | |||
| Runner Up | Special People | Justin Edgar Justin Edgar Justin Edgar is a British film director.Born in Handsworth, Birmingham on 18 August 1971, Edgar graduated from Portsmouth University in 1996 with a First Class degree in film. In 1998 he directed the short comedy Dirty Phonecalls for ITV’s First Cut scheme. It became a worldwide festival hit and... |
2004
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | Nits | Harry Wootliff | Harry Wootliff | ||
| Second Prize | Between Us | Stefan Mork, Charlotte Christensen | Rebekah Gilbertson | ||
| Third Prize | Belly Button | David Hewitt | |||
| Runner Up | Call Register | Ed Roe | Kit Hawkins Kit Hawkins Kit Hawkins is an English entertainment entrepreneur and producer.Along with Adam Tudhope, he co-founded the music management company, . Clients include Keane, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons... , Adam Tudhope |
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| Runner Up | Gravity Gravity (film) Gravity is a 2012 American science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts in a damaged space station. Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son and attempted to develop the project at Universal Pictures. The project... |
Colin Hutton | Kate Norrish | ||
| Runner Up | Funeral Etiquette | Martin Romanella | Anna Haas |
2003
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | The Most Beautiful Man in the World | Alicia Duffy | Hugh Welchman | Breakthru Films BreakThru Films BreakThru Films is a film production company, based in London, Warsaw and Dublin. The company concentrates mostly in the production of short and feature films, animation, documentary and live-stage shows.-History:... |
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| Second Prize | The Bypass | Amit Kumar Amit Kumar Amit Kumar is an Indian film playback singer, actor, director, and music director. He is the son of famous singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father he too loved singing since childhood and used to sing in Kolkata during Durga Pooja functions... |
Trevor Ingram | ||
| Third Prize | Brown Paper Bag | Michael Baig Clifford | Natasha Carlish | Dreamfinder Productions |
2002
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | Thespian X | Gerald McMorrow Gerald McMorrow Gerald McMorrow is a director and writer who wrote and directed the short film Thespian X and had his feature-length writing and directing debut with the 2008 science fiction film Franklyn.-Career:... |
Karim Halwagi | TX Film Production Ltd | |
| Second Prize | Salaryman | Jake Knight | Shane RJ Walter | Onedotzero Onedotzero onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts.... |
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| Third Prize | Eddie Loves Mary | Hannah Rothschild | Nicky Kentish Barnes |
2001
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | About a Girl About a Girl (film) About a Girl is a nine-minute short film directed by Brian Percival. In 2001 it won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. It also won an award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for Best British Short, the TCM Classic Shorts Award prize at the London Film Festival, and the Jury Prize at... |
Brian Percival Brian Percival Brian Percival is a British film director, working mainly in television.He has directed Pleasureland, North & South, ShakespeaRe-Told , The Ruby in the Smoke and The Old Curiosity Shop.... |
Janey De Nordwall | Silver Films Ltd | |
| Second Prize | The Last Post | Dominic Santana | Lee Santana Lee Santana Lee Santana is an American lutenist who lives and teaches in Bremen, Germany.He has composed a variety of works for early instruments such as lutes, viols, recorders and small baroque orchestra.... |
Danny Boon Productions | |
| Third Prize | Skin Deep | Yousaf Ali Khan Yousaf Ali Khan Yousaf Ali Khan is a British film director. He wrote and directed Skin Deep , a short film about racism, and Talk With Angels , another short film about a young boy whose mother suffered from schizophrenia, a film that was partly autobiographical and which was nominated for an Oscar... |
Andy Porter | APT Film & TV |
2000
| Award | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Writer(s) | Production Company |
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| First Prize | Je T'Aime John Wayne Je t'aime John Wayne Je t'aime John Wayne is a ten minute short film parody directed by Toby MacDonald about a young man in London obsessed with imitating Jean Paul Belmondo in the film Breathless, who in turn was pretending to be Humphrey Bogart... |
Toby MacDonald | Luke Morris | ||
| Second Prize | Going Down | Tom Shankland Tom Shankland - Filmography :* The Children * WΔZ * Marple: The Moving Finger * Jericho * Family Business * No Night Is Too Long * Clocking Off * Going Down * Hearts and Bones * Bait * Bubbles - Awards :... |
Sol Gatti-Pascual | Diablo Films | |
| Third Prize | Sweet Sweet (film) Sweet is a 2000 short film directed by James Pilkington starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt that is set in Camden, London. The plot is reused in the Mighty Boosh episode, The Nightmare of Milky Joe.-Overview:... |
James Pilkington James Pilkington (director) James Pilkington is an English film director who works for a film production company called The Sweet Shop.-Biography:Pilkington studied at the University of Westminster Film School, then found success directing short films. His first short 'Pocket' won the BBC Best Short film award 1998 and was... |
Rob Mercer | Angry Donkey Productions |