WINNER: Representation Award UnderWire 2010
A touching portrait of the relationship between pregnant teenager Jude and her own young father Michael, with a bold performance from rising star Shomarri Diaz. The team behind Knock Off each receiving a years subscription to Little White Lies. Congratulations to writer/director, Rosanna Flynne, producer, James Levison, and their team.
WINNER: Editing Award UnderWire 2010
Made with funding from the Diesel New Voices project, Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautiful, verite style, 16mm film about the lives of 2 young skateboarders from Afghanistan. Congratulations to editor, Peta Ridley, for a stunning piece of work creating a documentary that reads like a visual poem. Peta received £500 of training and...
WINNER: Cinematography Award UnderWire 2010
Sis is a remarkable film which walks a delicate line of portraying pedophilia in a story with a sense of humour. Writer/Director, Deborah Haywood, and producer, Tina Pawlik, put together an all-female shooting team to bring this sensitive subject to our screens. Cinematographer, Gabi Norland, received 5 x 400ft of 16mm film stock from Kodak. Head over to...
WINNER: Screenwriting Award UnderWire 2010
Writer/Director, Susan Everett, won one year’s worth of bespoke script development from Euroscript with her short film, Mother, Mine. A young woman is grieving the death of her adoptive mother. Trying to track down her natural mother to find a replacement ‘mum’, she sends out a videotape as an introduction. But her intentions are not as...
WINNER: Producing Award UnderWire 2010
At only 3m 26secs, short film Pussy packs a punch. Ellie is being sexually bullied at school. Finding it too much to deal with alone, she eventually gets help, then she sees her bully as he really is. Producer, Debbie Howard, (who also wrote and directed the film) received one-year of mentoring from Producer Christine Hartland, supported by WFTV. Read...
WINNER: Directing Award UnderWire 2010
The skin-tingling Marigolds explores what goes on behind ‘closed doors’ of a seemingly normal family, living in a sleepy village. It exposes the fragile state of a 25-year lifeless and dull marriage, and in particular, the effect this has had on the state of mind of the mother. Director, Stephanie Zari, received membership to Radar Music and will direct...
