The Inaugural Student Shinies Winners Announced

10 great student shorts, spanning spec ads to music videos screened to capacity audience at Shiny’s first awards dedicated to student work.

’People couldn’t believe it was student work’ said Caroline Bottomley, Shiny MD ‘There was so much great feedback - someone admitted the thought of seeing student shorts filled them a leaden dread, but in fact they had an absolutely and unexpectedly enjoyable experience’.

Students and recent graduates from over 40 universities and colleges across the UK, USA and mainland Europe sent in work. As always with Shiny’s screening, c70% of the shortlist was work from under-represented directors. The winners were announced at the event by Jo Arteaga, Creative Director at Draftline, Parm Singh, EP at Draftline, Christopher Reed, head of Production at Draftline and Belinda Grew, Production Director at Absolute.

Winners:

Leve Kuhl ‘Highife’ FilmAkademie Baden-Wurttemburg 

Zeb Goriely ‘36,000 Words For Love’ University of Cambridge 

Lea Thurner ‘Tell Me What You Want’ FilmAkademie Baden-Wurttemburg 

Max Mir ‘Lemonade Stand Off’ Met Film School

Ivan Baliuk ‘Remain Calm Whilst Breathing Air’ University of Gloucester

Shiny are happy to mark the beginning of this annual event with such a great start. Find out more about Shiny and their future events here.