CIR 10 – Shortlist Film
Panel of Judges
Emily Man, Producer/ Maggie Ellis, Head of Production, Film London
Michael Hayden, Festival Programmer, BFI London Film Festival
Sebastian Goodwin
Sebastian Goodwin studied studied History of Art at Cambridge University. After graduating he then studied at the Polish National Film School in Lodz as a Leverhulme Scholar. He has since made short films funded by the UK Film Council and BBC Films as well as short documentaries for Channel 4. ‘The Girls’, made in 2007, was BIFA nominated for Best UK Short Film. Sebastian is now writing a feature film script.
THE GIRLS – wrote/adapted and directed by Sebastian Godwin
Based on a short story by Joyce Cary
Duration: 10 minutes.
A father comes back home to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. As dusk falls, the mood begins to darken. Funded by the UK Film Council.
Film
Destiny Ekaragha – CIR RESIDENT 2010-2011
Destiny Ekaragha studied Film and Communications at London Metropolitan University, graduating in 2003. After working as a Runner on various TV and film projects Destiny wrote and directed her first short film called ‘Tight Jeans’. The film went on to be officially selected by the 2008 Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film shown at the London Film Festival by The Observer
THE PARK – Written and Directed by Destiny ekaragha
Duration: 16 minutes
The Park is a coming of age tale about three teenage boys that are best friends. They talk about everything besides the problems that are truly troubling them. The stories they tell are nothing compared to the secrets that they keep.
Lilah Vandenburgh
Lilah Vandenburgh is a US born filmmaker and performer living in London. In addition to working in feature films, she’s a music video and promo director with Blackdog UK and one half of the comedy duo Vandenburgh & Shakinvosky. Her 35mm debut short, BITCH, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally.
BITCH – Directed by Lilah Vandenburgh
Duration: 15 minutes
Bitch is a pop-culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many
deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes,
your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will
find you and she will make you pay.Love is for losers, and PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. That is until she meets a guy as antisocial as she is. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first.
Oscar Sharp
Oscar Sharp dreamed of becoming a magician until he realised that creating films was where the real magic happened. Many of his films have been shortlisted for awards including at the prestigious Raindance Festival. Oscar would now like to try his hand at music videos and Television.
Forna, written and directed by Oscar Sharp
Duration: 11 minutes
A middle-aged couple with a crumbling marriage discover an unsettling growth at the bottom of their garden
