Rushes Soho Shorts Awards Winners Announced

The ninth Rushes Soho Shorts Awards Night was held on Thursday 2 August at The Café De Paris, Piccadilly, W1.
The celebrity packed awards ceremony was hosted by Terry Christian. Presenters included Miranda Richardson, Simon McBurney, Tamer Hassan. Will Mellor, Jodie Albert, Angelica Bell and Michelle Dewberry.

• THE ASCENT MEDIA SHORT FILM AWARD
  Winner – ‘Silence is Golden’ – Director: Chris Shepherd @ Slinky Pictures
  Runners up: ‘Interior Bedsit Day’ – Director: James Larkin @ Film 38 Ltd.
  and ‘Soft’ – Director: Simon Ellis @ Bub
• THE ERA ANIMATION AWARD
  Winner – ‘Shaun the Sheep – Off the Baa’ – Director: Chris Sadler @ Aardman
  Runners up: ‘Over the Hill’ – Director: Peter Baynton @ Spool Films and ‘Exit 2’ – Director: Satoshi Tamioka @ Kanaban Graphics
• THE RUSHES NEWCOMER AWARD
  Winner – ‘Fish Can’t Fly’ – Director: Richard Murphy @ VMD Films
  Runners up: ‘Would Like to Meet’ – Director: Trevor De Silva @ Kaleidoscope Films and ‘Young Offender’ – Director: Isabel Anderton @ British Film Council
• THE SONY MUSIC VIDEO AWARD
  Winner – Groove Armada ‘Get Down’ – Director: Pleix @ Colonel Blimp
  Runners up: Modest Mouse ‘Dashboard’ – Director: Motion Theory @ Rokkit Ltd. and Faithless ‘Bombs’ – Directors: Howard Greenhalgh @ Believe Media
• THE ADSTREAM TITLE SEQUENCES & IDENTS AWARD
  Winner – ‘BBC 4 – Edwardian Season’ – Director: Steve Cope @
  Red Bee Media
  Runners up: ‘Vodafone’ – Directors: Chris Waitt @ Nexus Productions and ‘BBC 2 – Seascape’ – Directors: Micheal Geoghegan @ Red Bee Media
• THE CURZON CINEMAS DOCUMENTARTY AWARD
  Winner – ‘Cheat Neutral’ – Director: Beth Stratford
  Runners up: ‘Our Father Who Art in Heaven’’ – Director: Jeremy Williams @ Landmark Films and ‘What We’ve Found out About Stem Cells’ – Director: Richard Fenwick.

The Rushes Soho Short Film Festival is a week long festival that takes over Soho from 28 July to 3 August.
For more information on the Rushes Soho Shorts Awards browse to www.rushes.co.uk
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