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After a brilliant night of film, music, posh pizza, cocktails, vans and Hollywood anecdotes from the great Barry Norman, here is the full list of shortlisted films and winners from over 15 categories at The Van d’Or Independent Film Awards 2012. Congratulations to everyone who won or was nominated – we look forward to plenty of screenings over the next 6 months. Please see the press release at the bottom of this page for more information.

 

The Awards are listed in order of presentation.

 

BEST COMEDY

Mourn (Rouw) – dir. Nils Gerbens (WINNER)

Bertie Crisp Francesca Adams

Cinderella 3.0 Sebastian Harrer

Glick’s Last Tour John Henry Owen

Pvt. Crane Ben Mallaby

This Is Colin Perrie Murphy

Two Girls Simon Tatum

 

BEST FEATURE

Small Creatures – dir. Martin Wallace (WINNER)

Life Just Is Alex Barrett

Paramnesia Eleutherios Kakathimis

Verity’s Summer Ben Crowe

Weekend Retreat Brett Harvey

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Verity’s Summer – dir. Ben Crowe (WINNER)

Glick’s Last Tour

Mum Says

Trunks

Young Souls

 

THE STUDENT FILM IN TRANSIT AWARD

Gentrification – dir. Alastair Oloo (WINNER)

Celldweller-Subterra Jekaterina Ivanova

Writers Block Philip Spaar

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Roger The Real Life Superhero – dir. Cathy MacDonald (WINNER)

Babyish Nick Jesper

Back On Road Fliss Buckles

Gasoline Julio Barreiros

Italian VandalShafiur Rahman

Lasting Rights Jon Gordon & Niko Alajoki

Speakers Corner Aslak Danbolt

The Quay Richard Fleury

Timed Mike Jones

Walk Tall Kate Sullivan

 

BEST MOTION DESIGN

The Adventures of TinTin – dir. James Curran (WINNER)

Dawn Adrian Herr & Torben Stange

Fubar Redux Hasraf Dulull

Golem Tobias Wiesner & Patrick Mccue

Kindling Gary Dumbill

The Future Forms Of Life David Lance

 

SCREEN SOCIAL AWARD FOR BEST MUSIC-BASED FILM

Address Is Approximate – dir. Tom Jenkins (WINNER)

D N A U X B Tony Comley

Etcetera Martin Allais

Golem Tobias Wiesner & Patrick Mccue

Hair Joao Seica

Little Dragon – Crystalfilm Daniel Wirtberg

Lyrebird Soup Naren Wilks

Magic Oskar Gullstrand & Andreas Öhman

Monster Emma Reading

Oh Jackie Uisdean Murray

Reset Chris Boyle

Young Souls Dean Chalkley

 

BEST SOUND DESIGN

The Flow – David Johnston (WINNER)

Dawn Julien Herion

Fubar Redux Henning Knophel

Golem Gavin Little

Hitler & Henry VIII John Bowen / Justin Smith

In Limbo David J Bull

BEST DRAMA

82 – dir. Calum Macdiarmid (WINNER)

Beijo de MorenaEdilberto Restino

Hard To SayRebecca Coley

Hitler & Henry VIIIJane Gull

Mum SaysJohn Brown

Queensbury Rules William Scothern

Taking LifeSteve Reeves

The View From The WindowAD Cooper

TrunksDavid Hewitt

Sunny Boy Jane Gull

 

BEST ACTOR

Darren Kent – Sunny Boy (WINNER)

Tom Pauline Small Creatures

Tommy Vine Mum Says

Nick Moran 82

Eric Colvin Glick’s Last Tour

 

BEST ACTRESS

Andrea Lowe – Taking Life (WINNER)

Natasha Sparkee Hard To Say

Michaela Wiebusch Haltlos

Indea Barbe-Willson Verity’s Summer

 

BEST SCREENPLAY

Trunks – Kevin Money (WINNER)

82

Taking Life

View From The Window

Small Creatures

BEST ANIMATION

Bertie Crisp – dir. Francesca Adams (WINNER)

Address Is Approximate Tom Jenkins

Bradley Manning Had Secrets Adam Butcher

Brave New Old Adam Wells

Etcetera Martin Allais

In Limbo Chris Morgan

Kahanikar – The Storyteller Nandita Jain

The Adventures of TinTin James Curran

The Fraiser Werp Paul Marshall

This is Colin Perrie Murphy

Tosh Daisy Jacobs

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Steve Reeves – Taking Life (WINNER)

Calum Macdiarmid 82

Martin Wallace Small Creatures

Jane Gull Sunny Boy

John Brown Mum Says

Kate Sullivan Walk Tall

 

 

SHOOTING PEOPLE GRASS ROOTS AWARD

Self Employed – dir. Esra Piké (WINNER)

Address Is ApproximateTom Jenkins

Under a VestKal Bonner

Computer LoveKatie Jessop

KindlingGary Dumbill

On Another NoteEmma Dove

Playing NurseMiranda Howard-Williams

Sogh-Kaleidoskop Ivy Jelisavac

Buffalo Ink – Your Head Is My Head Joel Blackledge

In Limbo Chris Morgan

 

UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARDS

Haltlos Tim Duenshede

Under A Vest Kal Bonner

Once And For All Ben Strebel

 

THE VAN D’OR FOR BEST FILM

82 – dir. Calum Macdiarmid (WINNER)

Mum Says John Brown

Roger The Real Life Superhero Cathy MacDonald

Taking Life Steve Reeves

Trunks David Hewitt

 

PRESS RELEASE

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