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AWARDS
This year we offered four key awards to our fabulous filmmakers: Best Feature Film (for an internationally leading feature film); Best Feature Newcomer (for those debut gems and UK premieres); Best Documentary and Best Short Film.
The 2008 winners are as follows -
Best Documentary
'Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go', Dir Kim Longinotto
Best Newcomer
'Hotel Very Welcome', Dir Sonja Heiss
Best Feature
'Persepolis', Dir Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Best Short
'Sophie', Dir Birgitte Staermose
Award Juries
To make sure that that the incredibly tough task of judging is in the very best of hands, we’ve brought together a jury of top industry folk: critics, actresses, producers and distributors. See full list below.
Best Short Film Jury
Julia Short is co-owner of Verve Pictures, an independent distribution company which has released Bullet Boy , the BAFTA award winner Amma Asante's A Way of Life , Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Penny Woolcock's Mischief Night
Matthieu de Braconier manages and exec-produces Cinema Extreme: a short film scheme funded by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4. Past commissions include Wasp by Andrea Arnold and Strange Little Girls by Savina Dellicour.
Kate Vogel is the Commissioning Editor for 3 Minute Wonders , Channel 4's short documentary strand for new talent and innovation.
Barbara Stone produces features, directs documentaries and short films and founded the Gate Cinema in London. Unrelated, directed by Joanna Hogg and screened at BEV on Tuesday March 11th, is her latest production.
Best feature Film Jury
Harriet Walter is a Laurence Olivier Award winning stage actress. Her film credits include Atonement, Babel and Martha Fiennes' Chromophobia .
Damon Wise is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Times Online and Empire (for which he was previously the Film Editor).
Jane Giles , formerly Head of Acquisitions at Tartan Films UK & USA, is now Head of Content at the British Film Institute.
Sarfraz Manzoor is a leading UK journalist, author and broadcaster, regularly contributing to The Guardian. His critically acclaimed memoir Greetings from Bury Park was published last year.
Best Feature Newcomer Jury
Sharman MacDonald is a playwright and novelist. Her plays include When We Were Women and The Winter Guest . She has just finished writing the film The Edge of Love which stars her daughter Keira Knightley.
Matt Bochenski is the co-founder and editor of cutting edge independent film magazine, Little White Lies.
Monica Ali's first novel Brick Lane was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It has recently been made into a feature film, directed by Sarah Gavron. Ali's second novel, Alentejo Blue , was published in 2006.
Wendy Mitchell is the Senior Editor of Screen International, and its sister website ScreenDaily.com. Prior to that, she was based in New York as Managing Editor of independent film publication indieWIRE.
Best Documentary Jury
Sarah Mulvey is Channel 4's Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, commissioning Cutting Edge and the documentary strand for up and coming directors, First Cut .
Geoff Andrew is a film writer and critic who worked for a number of years as Film Editor at Time Out magazine. He is currently Head of Film Programming at BFI Southbank.
Beadie Finzi produced Unknown White Male and is now directing two new films, The Hunger Season for More 4 and Vida Ballet for Channel 4 and Arte France. Beadie is also a director of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, and the festival director for BRITDOC
Franny Armstrong made McLibel , watched by 35 million people and featured in the BFI's Ten Documentaries Which Shook The World season. She is now filmming her new climate change epic, The Age of Stupid . Franny will also be in conversation at Birds Eye View on Thursday 13 th March.