2017 Audience Award Results

As ever, documentaries scored highly at KFF, with Life, Animated (92.1%) gaining the biggest overall score, closely followed by We Are Many (91.7%) and Paths of the Soul (87.7%).

Loving (84%) was voted the best dramatic film, with Manchester by the Sea (82.5%) and Tanna (81.1%) not far behind. There were over 1250 4* or 5* ratings for films at the Festival. As ever, though, the KFF audience bucked the trend as La La Land was given something of a thumbs down.

 

All of the audience scores are now available here.

Festival Awards

We asked film critics Matt Glasby, Karen Krizanovich and Ali Catterall to nominate a film for the inaugural Keswick Film Festival's Critic's Award. On Saturday we showed Matt's choice of Son Of Saul, Karen's selection of Arrival and ended the night with Ali's late night screening of Raw. On Sunday Matt, Karen and Ali put forward their cases for their films, the audience vote was combined with Saturday's rating and we declared Arrival the winner.

The Osprey Short Film Awards also took place on Saturday and both the Judges Award and the Audience Award went to A Shepherd's Hand. This 5 minute film directed by Richard Berry and Jago Miller is based on a poem written by Geoff Cox following his attempt at the endurance run of the Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge.

Writer (and endurance runner) Geoff Cox with the Osprey prize certificates

We're still counting all the votes for the Audience Award for new films at the festival but should have the results soon.

Sunday At The Festival

Coming up today:

• Life, Animated ~ Alhambra 10:00
• How The Rich Avoid Tax with Greg Wise and director Paul Murton ~ Studio 10:00

• Loving ~ Alhambra 12:30
• Michael Curtiz Talk by Adam Feinstein ~ Studio 13:00

• Critics Debate ~ Alhambra 15:00
• The Breaking Point ~ Studio 15:15

• Toni Erdmann ~ Alhambra 16:30
• Stevie ~ Studio 17:30

• La La Land ~ Alhambra 20:00

Saturday At The Festival

Coming up today:

• We Are Many ~ Studio 10:00
• Swallows and Amazons ~ Theatre By The Lake 11:00
• Paths of the Soul ~ Rheged 11:10
• Osprey Short Film Awards ~ Alhambra 12:00

• Wolf Totem ~ Rheged 14:10
• Critic's Choice: Son of Saul ~ Theatre By The Lake 14:30
• The Salesman ~ Alhambra 14:30

• After The Storm ~ Theatre By The Lake 17:00
• Casablanca ~ Studio 17:00
• Critic's Choice: Arriv ~ Alhambra 17:00

• White Mischief + Q&A with Greta Scacchi ~ Theatre By The Lake 20:00
• Paterson ~ Alhambra 20:00

• Critic's Choice: Raw ~ Alhambra 22:45

Friday At The Festival

Coming up today at the festival:

• Tanna ~ Theatre By The Lake 12:00
• Yankee Doodle Dandy ~ Studio 12:00
• Graduation ~ Alhambra 12:00

• Manchester By The Sea ~ Alhambra 14:45
• The Browning Version ~ Theatre By The Lake 15:00
• Draw on Sweet Night ~ Studio 15:00

• The Unknown Girl ~ Theatre By The Lake 17:30
• Neruda ~ Alhambra 17:45
• Captains of the Clouds ~ Studio 18:00

• The Player ~ Theatre By The Lake 20:15
• Reaching For The Moon ~ Studio 20:30
• American Honey ~ Alhambra 20:30

More Festival Guests

We are delighted to announce that Paul Murton will be joining us on the Sunday of the Festival. Paul directed How the Rich Avoid Tax, one of our screenings in partnership with Keswick Peace and Human Rights Group. Paul is an accomplished director with The Bill and Casualty amongst his credits and he appears in front of the camera in his travelogue series Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands.

Our second new guest is a little more wooden in its delivery – by kind permission of Nick Barton and the Windermere Jetty Museum Amazon will be stationed outside the Theatre by the Lake on Saturday morning, skull and crossbones fluttering. We may even have a real life Amazon in person, too!