Osprey Winners

More than a hundred people came along to watch the Osprey Short Film Awards on Saturday afternoon. Directors James Gardner (Jellyfish) and Mike Tweddle (Sparrowhawk) helped hand out the certificates to all of the filmmakers.

The main prizes were awarded as follows:

Open Category: A Mercy Kill by Richard Skelton
Student Category: Cake by Alana Barton
Audience Award: Holding Space by Rebecca Kenyon

You can find more details about all of the films on our website and photos from the event are available on our Facebook Page.

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.