ASFF 2018 Award Winners
Best of Festival | Northern Film School Screenplay Award | Best Documentary Winner
Black Sheep
Dir. Ed Perkins | UK, 2018
Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on 27 November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed in what became one of the UK’s most high-profile cases.
Peoples Choice Award Winner
Turning Tide
Dir. Andrew Muir | UK, 2018
After witnessing an aerial battle over 1940s Scotland, a young boy is thrown into a life-changing situation when face-to-face with a downtrodden German pilot.
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BFI Network & Film Hub North Award
Venus
Faye Carr Wilson | UK, 2016
A short documentary dealing with issues of disability and empowerment through drag performer, Venus Dimilo. An intimate human story of acceptance.
York Youth Award
Camlo
David Moody | UK, 2018
A young boy’s journey through the landscape of Belfast. Camlo tries to understand where he will fit within a society that hasn’t accepted him thus far in his life.
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Best Advertising
Start the Buzz
Giacomo Boeri & Matteo Grimaldi | Italy, 2018
Start the Buzz was commissioned by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (Italian Fashion Council) to celebrate Milan Fashion Week A/W 2018/19.
Best Animation
Double Portrait
Ian Bruce | UK, 2017
Double Portrait is a hand-painted animation which portrays the ill-fated relationship between Geraldine Peacock and Bob Gannicott.
Best Artists' Film
Author of Expectations
bielecki&bielecka | UK, 2018
A dual-screen video installation made up of stylised interviews. The work challenges the audience to give equal attention to the protagonists.
Best Comedy
Sex Ed
Alice Seabright | UK, 2018
Ed teaches sex education to teenagers, a job he usually loves. But today it’s the last thing he wants to do, when personal problems rise to the surface.
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Best Dance
Dances With Circles
Paul McLean | UK, 2018
Paul McLean directs the story of Rachel Sullivan and her journey from loneliness to reclaimed freedom. A cyclical tale within overwhelming environments.
Best Drama
In Wonderland
Christopher Hayden | UK, 2017
In Wonderland is the story of a life experienced together. It begins and ends in the same moment – on a beach where Alice has come to say goodbye to Michael.
Best Experimental
Something Said
Jay Bernard | UK, 2017
Haunted by the 1981 New Cross Fire, Something Said is a curious response to the black British archives as well as an attempt to reconcile the changing present with the past.
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Best Fashion Film
C 41 Magazine x Adidas Originals Prophere
Leone Balduzzi | Italy, 2017
A story of a group of friends with different personalities, this film for Adidas Originals explores a need for authenticity away from the mainstream.
Best Music Video
I Am Sex - Alon Elder
Yuval Haker | Israel, 2017
An animated music video for Israeli musician Alon Eder, I Am Sex deals with anxiety, love and intimacy through surprising visual techniques.
Best Thriller
Wale
Barnaby Blackburn | UK & USA, 2018
The story of an 18-year-old mobile mechanic, who learned his trade at a young offenders institution. Now he’s out, and trying to get his business going.
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Best Narrative Feature
You Go To My Head
Dimitri de Clercq | France, Germany & Belgium, 2017
Following a mysterious car accident, Dafne suffers from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake, the first person she sees, tells her he’s her husband.
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Best Documentary Feature
Almost Heaven
Carol Salter | UK, 2017
Far from home and terrified of ghosts, 17-year-old Ying Ling is training to become a mortician in one of China’s largest funeral homes.
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Best VR & Immersive Experience
Ashes to Ashes
Ingejan Ligthart Schenk, Jamille van Wijngaarden & Steye Hallema | Netherlands, 2017
This one-shot film immerses audiences in the story of a dysfunctional family who are burdened with the bizarre final wish of their grandmother.