Wider Research - British Short Film Set List 

'The Ellington Kid' success - directed by Dan Sully (an award winning filmmaker and photographer based in London)
Made the front page of reddit
  • Became a vimeo staff pick
  • Has over a million hits on youtube
'Slap' (2014) - director and production 
  • Production company - National Film and Television School (NFTS)
  • Nick Rowland (director) graduated from NFTS
  • 'Slap' is one of Rowland's student shorts and won Best Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and received BAFTA and BIFA nominations
  • Rowland's student films obtained him many awards e.g. a Royal Television Society Award for Dancing in the Ashes, a nomination for Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival for Out of Sight, and a Student Oscar nomination for Group B.
'Tight Jeans' - how it came about 
  • Director - Destiny Ekharaga 
  • Ekharaga grew up and was raised watching films and decided at the age of 22 that she wanted to make her own
  • She teamed up with producer and friend Tamana Bleasdale
  • 'Tight Jeans' was Ekharaga's first short film (funded by Southern Exposure)
  • It was officially selected by The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival and this lead to Ekharaga being featured on BBC News and CNN.
  • The Park is the second short film that Ekharaga put on
Jörn Threlfall and his short film 'Over'
  • 'Over' was shot in West London and won multiple awards and was also nominated for a Best British Short Film BAFTA.
  • With 'Over', Threlfall hopes to 'intrigue some people and maybe get some wide eyes. Many might find it a more conceptual piece' (interview with Screen Daily)
  • Threlfall's reasons for the structure of reverse chronological order - he was trying to introduce the viewer to a different way of engaging with the story (on a sound and visual level). He felt the narrative was so sad and bold that it should be told in a different way, and in a way the viewer becomes the detective. He said 'I don't allow the viewer to get close to the crime scene; I'm offering them little pieces. It's a really interesting process to withhold something and make the viewer lean in. I think most people have responded with intrigue and a bit of bewilderment.'
Lewis Arnold's 'Echo'
  • 'Echo' screened at a host of international film festivals including Rotterdam International Film Festival picking up multiple awards. 
  • 'The film centres on an outstanding performance from young lad Lauren Carse and a subtle, yet powerful story'
'Operator' - Caroline Bartleet brief biography 
  • BA in English from Bristol University
  • She trained as an actress at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama after graduating
'The Arrival' - Daniel Montanarini and what made him want to be a director 
  • Watching Martin Scorsese speak about Taxi Driver made him want to be a director 
  • He graduated from The National Film and Television School's Directing Fiction Masters in 2015 and studied Film and Literature at Warwick University.
  • He worked in house for Pretzel Films and Zen Design Studios making short films and developing feature film projects
'The Fly' - Jack Doolan, an English actor
  • Doolan had a role in 16 episodes / short films before 'The Fly', including EastEnders and Peep Show 

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