4 posts from 2007

People seemed to enjoy themselves, even the committee. Is good.

Well, we've whittled around fifty entries for this year's Delta Film Award down to a mere thirteen (which still adds up a formidable 155 minutes). The finalists (to be screened at the 18th Festival of Fantastic Films on 1 September) are:

Alicia

Cedric Bourgeois (Belgium, 8")

 

Chainmail

Richard Chance and John Chance (UK, 26.5")

 

Contretemps

Jean Luc Baillet (France, 14")

 

Delendra Est Genesis

Rafa Dengra (Spain, 20")

 

Flyer

Helmi Yusof (Singapore, 21") 

 

Halfway

Karl Holt (UK, 6")

 

It Came From Beyond

Ian J Simpson (UK, 4")

 

Missing Connection

Ross Shepherd (UK, 5")

 

The Morality Game

Jim Walker (UK, 11")

 

No Fear of Death

Matthew Swain (UK, 10")

 

Recently Deceased

Chris McInroy (USA, 12")

 

Shelter

Stephen Hedley and Nick Light (UK, 2.5")

 

Son of the Dawn

Robert Mann (Eire, 15")

Edit: The competition was won by Jean-Luc Baillet's Contretemps, with Helmi Yusof's Flyer "highly commended". Special mentions were also made of Karl Holt's Halfway and Jim Walker's The Morality Game.

Those of you who attended the Saturday evening filmshow I put together for Novacon 36 will undoubtedly recall Karl Holt's hilarious horror-comedy Eddie Loves You. What I hadn't realised until tonight was that Karl had filmed the audience* when it was screened at the 17th Festival of Fantastic Films, to put together this trailer.

*[Eagle-eyed viewers will spot Hilary & Mike Simpson, Ann, myself and Ray Holloway. And no, I wasn't rubbing my eyes in disbelief: I was simply knackered from watching all the stuff we had to leave out of the Delta Award shortlist.]

Well, the flood has begun. I've already received entries for this year's Delta Award from the UK, the USA, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Eire...