Rushes Soho Shorts winners

 

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, celebrating its 13th year, is excited to announce the 48 finalists in this year’s competition.  The top three finalists from each category have been chosen by 120 judges, all of whom are long standing professionals in the chosen fields within the media and entertainment industry.
 

The RSSF 2011 Finalists are:

ANIMATION 

THE EAGLEMAN STAG directed by Mikey Please at The Royal College of Arts

NOKIA ‘DOT directed by Sumo Science at Aardman Animations

A MORNING STROLL directed by Grant Orchard at Studio AKA

 

SHORT FILM

CAPTURING SANTA directed by Peter Cattaneo at Sprout Pictures

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT directed by Michael Davies at Spellbound Films

COLOURBLEED directed by Peter Szewczyk at Light + Mathematics

 

INTERNATIONAL

COCKRAOCH directed by Luke Eve at More Sauce

TWO LAPS directed by Owen Trevor at Lanky Boy and Luscious International

VIA GORI directed by George Barbakadze at Iluminar Pty ltd.

 

LONG FORM

HERMANN directed by Hana Geissendorfer  at GFF KG

RITE directed by Michael Pearce at Digicult

DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY directed by Ariel Kleiman at The Victorian College of the Arts

 

BROADCAST DESIGN

AIDES ‘SMUTLEY’ directed by Againstallods at Passion Pictures

THE CHASE ¬ Venables and Bell and Intel directed by Smith & Foulkes at Nexus Productions

THIS UNPREDICTABLE LIFE - Honda directed by Smith & Foulkes at Nexus Productions

 

MUSIC VIDEO

MARCHING SONG – Esben & The Witch directed by Peter King & David Procter at Agenda Collective

IRON - Woodkid directed by Yoann Lemoine at Caviar / HSI London

ISLES – Little Comets directed by Aoife McArdie at Agile Films

 

NEWCOMERS

GOD VIEW directed by Billy Lumby

WORSHIP directed by Calum MacDiarmid

STARCROSSED directed by Tactful-Cactus at Tactful-Cactus

 

DOCUMENTARY
SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel at Grain

Media

PS YOUR MYSTERY SENDER directed by Benjamin Wigley at Artdocs & Scottish

Documentary Institute

MANUEL DE LOS SANTOS directed by Peter Montgomery
 

The RSSF Finalists will be joined by Fujifilm Shorts nominee’s with all winners being announced at the RSSF Awards Ceremony being held at Curzon Soho on Thursday 28th July 2011.
 

The festival is a non-profit event, taking place from 20th to 29th July, and is recognized as one of UK’s best Short Film Festivals, promoting filmmakers to the film, TV and commercial production industries with an equal focus on emerging and established talent.
 

The festival opened with the very well received feature documentary POM Wonderful presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, directed by Morgan Spurlock. The documentary explores the potential for product placement in financing films, a source of funding that is increasingly applicable for short format work.  
 

The last five days have seen sell out seminars at The Hospital Club, BAFTA, Deluxe Soho alongside panels at the Applestore discussing the Future of Documentary with the Documentary Filmmakers Group, the Future of Advertising with the APA and an amazing showcase from Addictive TV. 
 

The straight 8 programme opened last night to a sell out audience of filmmakers and super 8 fanatics with a second premiere screening tonight with another new 20 straight 8 films - as yet unseen by their filmmakers.
 

All events and full booking details can be found on our website:  www.sohoshorts.com