Short Film Award in 2008

10 February 08

Click on the PLAY button below to watch the nominations for the Short Film Award

Paddy Considine's work Dog Altogether starring Peter Mullen was declared the winner of the Short Film Award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 10 February.

The Academy recognises that it is essential to reward and nurture the immense diversity and talent demonstrated by filmmakers producing short film and animation. Shorts offer both new and established talent alike the chance to create experimental and innovative films and, by rewarding excellence within these fields, BAFTA aims to raise the profile of these talented individuals and of shorts in general.

All the nominated shorts, including the winners were screened at a special Academy Event on Thursday 21 February at our headquarters 195 Piccadilly.

DOG ALTOGETHER (16 MINS) - WINNER
Producer: Diarmid Scrimshaw | Director/Writer: Paddy Considine

Dog Altogether, directed by acclaimed actor Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum; My Summer of Love), is the story of Joseph, a man who is plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.

Short Animation Award nominations

HESITATION (16 MINS)
Producer: Julien Berlan & Michelle Eastwood | Director/Writer: Virginia Gilbert

Everything is in place: a resort drenched in sunshine, lazing holiday-makers and middle-aged married couple, Paul (Gerard McSorley) and Rebecca (Suzanne Burden), reading by the poolside. When a spirited French boy tears his way through the picture-perfect scene, happily oblivious to the noise and disruption his childish antics cause, he becomes the all-encompassing focus of Paul's irritation, which becomes an irrational hatred.

SOFT (14 MINS)
Producer: Jane Hooks | Director/Writer: Simon Ellis

When a father and son are independently terrorised by the same gang of youths, Dad is forced to deal with fears that he hasn't had to face since leaving school. It's a disturbing story of teenage violence, intimidation and the morality of revenge. Having written and directed many short films and music videos, writer- director Simon Ellis is currently in post-production on his first feature film.

THE ONE AND ONLY HERB MCGWYER PLAYS WALLIS ISLAND (25 MINS)
Producer: Charlie Henderson | Director: James Griffiths | Writers: Tim Key & Tom Basden

When jaded ‘nice guy of folk' Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) agrees to play a one-off gig for half a million pounds in cash, he takes a trip by boat to the remote Wallis Island to meet Charles Heath (Tim Key). Isolated, with only Charles for company, Herb is taken on a journey that ultimately reignites his passion for music.

THE STRONGER (10 MINS)
Producer: Dan McCulloch | Director: Lia Williams | Writer: Frank McGuinness

The wife of a theatre director chances upon his mistress in a theatre bar on Christmas Eve. Who is the stronger? Frank McGuinness's version of August Strindberg's short play is a stinging tale about the power of silence, directed by Lia Williams. Feathers, Lia's first short film, was based on a Raymond Carver short story.

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