Ffresh Awards on tour

5 Jun 2009

Student work from around Wales and the UK, shortlisted for this year’s Ffresh Awards, has been selected to screen at three of Ffresh’s International Partner Festivals in Mexico, Vancouver and Iran.

Run (winner of the Ffresh Short Shorts category) by International Film School Wales students Thomas Edwards and Lisa Culis, and Subject # 164 (nominated Ffresh Animation Category) by Daniel Nicholson from Swansea Metropolitan University will screen at the Vancouver Short Film Festival in October.

The Expresión en Corto festival in Mexico, which annually attracts over 77,000 audience members and receives over 1,300 works, will screen a one hour package of work from this year’s Ffresh Awards. The full programme includes:

Halb (Half) (Winner Ffresh Awards Factual Category)
Rabea Gorny
International Film School Wales, University of Wales Newport

Elephants (Winner Ffresh Awards Out of Sight Category)
Sally Pearce
National Film & Television School

Atem (Winner Ffresh Awards Animation Category)
Gordon Benjamin Emanuel
International Film School Wales, University of Wales Newport

Animal Promo (Winner Ffresh Awards Motion Graphics Category)
Lee Stacey
University of Glamorgan

MTV Promo (Nominated Ffresh Awards Motion Graphics Category)
Jo Durrant
University of Glamorgan

Ocsiwn (Nominated Ffresh Awards Out of Sight Category)
Sîon Gareth Griffiths
Bangor University

Subject # 164 (Nominated Ffresh Awards Animation Category)
Daniel Nicholson
Swansea Metropolitan University

Light + Sound (Winner Ffresh Awards Music Media Category)
Cassie Ashbridge, Gareth Evans, James Stanton and Andy Sowerby
International Film School Wales, University of Wales Newport

Similar to Expresión en Corto, the Roshd International Film Festival in Iran – one of two new international partners of Ffresh – will be screening a one hour package of work from this year’s Ffresh Awards. The full programme includes:

Les Malgre-Nous (Nominated Ffresh Awards Animation Category)
Sophie Nau
Glyndwr University

Symbiotica (Nominated Ffresh Awards Factual Category)
Jill Sutherland
University of Glamorgan

Into the Inkwell (Nominated Ffresh Awards Short Shorts Category)
Rhiannon Evans
International Film School Wales, University of Wales Newport

Elephants (Winner Ffresh Awards Out of Sight Category)
Sally Pearce
National Film & Television School

Animal Promo (Winner Ffresh Awards Motion Graphics Category)
Lee Stacey
University of Glamorgan

MTV Promo (Nominated Ffresh Awards Motion Graphics Category)
Jo Durrant
University of Glamorgan

Soldiers of Misfortune (Winner of Ffresh Awards Audience Award)
Richard Evans & Craig Williams
Aberystwyth University

Light + Sound (Winner Ffresh Awards Music Media Category)
Cassie Ashbridge, Gareth Evans, James Stanton and Andy Sowerby
International Film School Wales, University of Wales Newport

To see the full list of Ffresh’s International Partner Festivals click here.