Shorts in 2009

08 February 09

The winners and nominations for the Short Film and Short Animation Awards in 2009.

Short Film Nominations

The Shorts Awards were announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 8 February. The Short Film BAFTA was presented to Esther May Campbell and Stewart le Maréchal for September and Nick Park collected the Short Animation BAFTA for Wallace and Gromit: A matter of Loaf and Death.

	SEPTEMBER - WINNER Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell (21mins) In an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead ends, Marvin is going nowhere. Into this forgotten corner of England arrives an extraordinary adolescent, changing his world forever.
	KINGSLAND #1 THE DREAMER Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni (21mins) The moon looks down. A stranger arrives in the city looking for work, love and respect. We travel with him; briefly dipping into other lives, treading a tragically inevitable road that leads him back to the beginning.
	LOVE YOU MORE Caroline Harvey, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber (15mins) Love You More is the short film debut of award-winning British artist Sam Taylor-Wood, written by four-time BAFTA nominee Patrick Marber.
	RALPH Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler (13mins) 16 year old Ralph travels alone to Marseille in order to try and find his best friend Clare and declare his love for her.
	VOYAGE D’AFFAIRES (THE BUSINESS TRIP) Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis (10mins) Jean Paul Clement is on a business trip. He checks into the Dolphine Hotel for seven nights where we learn he has one saved message on his mobile phone and a personal dilemma.

Short Animation Nominations

	WALLACE AND GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH - WINNER Director: Nick Park, Writers: Nick Park and Bob Baker, Producer: Steve Pegram (29mins) Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery business but a deadly murderer is targeting all the bakers in town. Can Gromit discover the identity of the Cereal Killer before Wallace becomes the next victim?
	CODSWALLOP Writers/Directors/Producers: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod (4mins) A subconscious drift through despair, frustration, joy and redemption based on a series of surreal stream of consciousness postcards. Featuring a collection of uncanny characters and briefly glimpsed stories.
	VARMINTS Director: Marc Craste, Writer: Marc Craste (as based on the book by Helen Ward), Producer: Sue Goffe (24mins) A small creature struggles in the face of overwhelming ubanisation, indifference and recklessness. His selfless acts of love ultimately prove the salvation of his world but at what cost to himself?

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