Friday, March 27th, 2009
Complimentary Booze & Boozey Compliments (Part 2)
Oh well, our short film ‘Moth to a Flame’ didn’t make it any further than an honorable mention in the shortlist at last night’s Performance short film awards. But it was still a fantastic night. I was particularly pleased for Sam Donavan’s ‘Hammerhead’ which took third place as I am a big fan of his films and was frankly really impressed with the overall winner ‘Gone Fishing’ which starred Bill Patterson of ‘The Singing Detective’ . It also featured a nice twist, a subtle Matrix reference, some good laughs and nearly made me cry (nearly!) so pretty much delivered, in my opinion.
As always at such occasions, there was a good opportunity for the dreaded ‘networking’. My lovely Heather has written a fantastic blog post about what to do when you’re nervous and talking to potentially useful people. But I was also really pleased to bump into someone I haven’t seen in three years who I used to write for so it was great to catch up and made the whole thing a lot less scary.
So congratulations to the winners and it was nice to still be in the top 12 of over 400 entries. However, with the deadline for the next round of Screen Yorkshire’s Digital Shorts next week, it has given me a lot to think about as I get my two scripts ready to submit. Maybe the next film will be the one 
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