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Finalists 2022:
THE BUCKLER | FLORENCE HYDE
Yorkshire, 1643. A Western set during the English Civil War. When marauding soldiers kidnap her cousin’s daughters, Prudence sets out across the war-torn moors to rescue them.
STAY MUM | PADDY BROWNE
A single mother is witness to a murder in a corner shop during a botched robbery. And to her horror, her son is the killer.
JUMPERS | BEN HYLAND
A sensible, jilted groom and an impulsive, runaway bride have a chance encounter at a suicide spot and the strangers agree to one final day of carnage.