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Colchester Film Festival

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Colchester Film Festival
LocationColchester, Essex, Essex, UK
Founded2012
LanguageInternational
Websitecolchesterfilmfestival.com

The Colchester Film Festival (CFF) [1] is an international film festival in Colchester, Essex, UK. The festival showcases a selection of the new feature and short films by filmmakers from around world, including World, European and UK premieres. The festival also hosts the 60 Hour Film Challenge, which sees filmmakers create a short film under 5 minutes in 60 hours. Previous films include Love... and all that. which is set to be turned into a feature film by MGM.[2]

Awards[edit]

Colchester Film Festival is a fully competitive film festival with awards in various categories.

Previous Colchester Film Festival Winners
Year Film Winner Award
2015 The Future Perfect Nick Citton Best Film
Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi Neal Broffman Best Feature Film
Hello, Again Tom Ruddock Best Regional Film
Tom In America Flavio Alves Best Director
North Steven Ferguson Best Cinematography
The Fly Leo King Best Editing
The Future Perfect Nick Citton Best Screenplay
The Fly Olly Williams Rising Star Award
Slow Down Megan Fox 60 Hour Film Challenge Winner
2014 Heavyweight Jesper Quistgaard Best Film
Charlie Says Lewis Arnold Best Director
Charlie Says Alfie Biddle Best Cinematography
Democracy Borja Cobeaga Best Editing
Democracy Gonzalez Vazquez Best Screenplay
The Bigger Picture Daisy Jacobs Rising Star Award
Dead Meat Kingsley Hoskins 60 Hour Film Challenge Winner
2013 The Voorman Problem Mark Gill Best Film
This Way Out Staten Cousins-Roe Best Director
Voice Over Jose Martín Rosete Best Cinematography
Good Night Una Gunjak Best Editing
Good Night Muriel d'Ansembourg Best Screenplay
Emmeline Daniela Pasquini Best Regional Film
Underage Joonas Makkonen 48 Hour Film Challenge Winner
2012 Close Friend Jose Mari Goenaga Best Film
82 Calum MacDiarmid Best Director
Close Friend Jauntxo Sardon Best Cinematography
82 Alexei Slater Best Screenplay
Little Lake Dorukhan Turan & Bilsay Yildrim 48 Hour Film Challenge Winner

Previous films from Colchester Film Festival have gone on to have Oscar and BAFTA success.

Year Film Screenings/Awards
2015 Operator [3]
  • BAFTA Winner for Best Short Film
2014 The Bigger Picture [4]
  • Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short Film
  • BAFTA Winner for Animated Short Film
2014 The Phone Call
  • Oscar Winner for Best Live Action Short Film
2013 The Voorman Problem
  • Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short Film
  • BAFTA Nomination for Live Action Short Film
2013 Good Night
  • BAFTA Nomination for Live Action Short Film
2012 Head Over Heels
  • Oscar Winner for Best Live Action Short Film

Venues[edit]

The main festival venue is Colchester's firstsite Visual Arts Facility, where it also screens a monthly selection of independent cinema. The Festival also hosts fringe events in other formal arts venues such as The Minories and St Botolphs Waiting Room. Some special outdoor screenings have been held at various Colchester based events each year.

References[edit]

  1. Britishcouncil.org
  2. Deadline.com
  3. gazette-news.co.uk
  4. "EssexChronicle.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-04. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

External links[edit]




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