Eat Our Shorts 2024 Winners Announced
The winners of Eat Our Shorts 2024 were announced at the BFI Southbank Centre on Friday November 8th. Huge congratulations to all the filmmakers!
Best Cinematography: An Insight into Hillfifields Estate
DoP: Harry Tatem.
Coventry University
Judges’ comments: ‘This imaginative and experimental black-and-white documentary captivated us with its masterful blend of gritty realism and fantasy. The cinematography is exceptional, showcasing a keen eye for compelling compositions, beautifully exposed faces, and a dynamic range of camera movements and fresh Points of View’.
With commendation for high standard in cinematography to:
The Hand Life Dealt. London Film Academy
Echelon. Manchester Metropolitan University
Cranes Soar: The Price of Dreams. University of East London.
Passerby. London Film School
Best Editing: An Insight into Hillfifields Estate
Editor: Harry Tatem.
Coventry University
Judges’ comments:
‘This poetic documentary, which guides us through the environment, is a strong character piece about a place. Tight, mesmerising, impressionistic editing with a good use of montage gives a textural depth to the expressive black and white filming’.
Best Sound: Wrens
Anglia Ruskin University
Sound: Henry Blakeway.
Dir. Hana Harvey Crysell
This soundtrack works on many levels both consciously and subconsciously. There is a highly skilled and rich base layer that is well mixed, functional, with subtle perspective and notable use of foreground mid ground and background, creating appropriate emphasis. The sound design illustrates a whole world beyond the frame, allowing the viewer to journey to another location within their imagination. This alternative story space supports the narrative and extends it to add another level of subjectivity and immersion. Overall, this is extremely creative sound design that walks a perfect balance between style and reality, placing us firmly in an aural landscape far from home and of another era. Congratulations to all the team and particularly sound designer Henry Blakeway.
Best Film in Each Screening
Screening 1:The Shout of the Lesser Khingan Mountains
Royal College of Art.
Dir: Yuquiao Li
Judges’ comments: ‘An extraordinary and imaginative film, using a wide range of effects and animation techniques’.
creening 2: Echelon
Manchester Metropolitan University.
Dir: Jennifer Masua-Zola
DoP: Jack Sale
Judges’ comments: ‘The filmmakers demonstrated a masterful command of light and shade, creating a visually striking and emotionally resonant atmosphere. The fluid camerawork further enhanced the narrative's grace and power’.
Special mention to: Unsee Me.
University of Gloucestershire
Dir: Dir Nia Rani
The judges felt that this is a film which shows great promise. It has the imaginative and creative strength of a personal voice to be encouraged. Effective sound editing and use of special effects in creating an inner world filled with the anxiety of how others see us is accompanied by a good rhythm in the picture edit. The mise-en-scene and production design was both poetically expressive and at times ingenious.
Screening 3: An Insight into Hillfield Estate.
Dir: Harry Tatem
Coventry University
Judges’ comments: ‘This imaginative and experimental black-and-white documentary captivated us with its masterful blend of gritty realism and fantasy’.
Audience Prize
Winner: An Insight into Hillfield Estate.
Dir: Harry Tatem
Coventry University
Judges’ comments: ‘This outstanding film achieves a high standard of filmmaking for an undergraduate film offering a powerful and unforgettable portrait of a Coventry estate and its youth’.