Osprey Short Film Award Winners

There may not have been a Keswick Film Festival in 2021 but the Osprey Short Film Awards still went ahead. Entries for the competition were invited back in March 2020 and despite the difficulties of working for much of the year with lockdown restrictions Cumbrian filmmakers responded magnificently in both the Student and Open categories. 

The 12 shortlisted films were shown at the Alhambra on the 23rd October and prizes were awarded to Shadow Of The Mountain by Simon Phelps in the Open category and The Love Song Of T. S. Eliot by Kitty Handley in the Student category.

Shadow Of The Mountain

The Love Song Of T.S Eliot

We are now accepting entries for the 2022 Festival due to take place 24-27 March, for more details please see our FilmFreeway page.

Osprey Short Film Awards Shortlist

We'll be holding this year's Osprey Short Film Awards on Saturday 23rd October 1:30pm at the newly reopened Alhambra. A limited number of free tickets will be available for this socially distanced event.

The following 12 films have been selected covering a number of genres and styles, budgets and technical resources and all showcasing imagination and creativity in under 10 minutes.

2021 Official Selection

• 'Accidental Death' of a Young Black Londoner, The Case of Rashan Charles - Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
• After The Rain - Lorna de Mello
• All In A Day's Work - Jay Gilmour
• Flames Tear The Soul - Tizzy Canucci
• Of Friction and Gravity - Richard Skelton
• Pandemotion - Kit Taylor
• Shadow of the Mountain - Simon Phelps
• Surplus Women - Lucy Atkinson
• The Catfish Club - BFI Film Academy 19-20 with Signal Film & Media
• The Love Song Of T. S. Eliot - Kitty Handley
• The Not So Super Man - Joel Sheldrake
• What Goes 'round... - Joshua Alexander

More details of all of the films can be found on our website https://www.keswickfilm.org/festival/shorts

Programme Archive

 

To celebrate and/or commiserate what should have been the weekend of the 22nd Keswick Film Festival we've been through our archives and found all of the old festival programmes. They've now been added to the website as PDFs and online film listings. Starting with Derek Jarman's version of The Tempest back in 2000 right through to Roger Michell's Blackbird which closed the festival last year; there are hundreds of films to explore and remember.

There's still too much uncertainty to know when we'll be back but the new roadmap offers some hope. We're still hoping to hold the Osprey Short Film Awards later in the year and maybe even a mini festival so we look forward to welcoming you back as soon as we can.