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Awards 2012

Run by students and judged by panels of award-winning film professionals , the Watersprite Awards aim to promote and celebrate the best in student-produced short films from around the world. The festival hosts talks and workshops with world industry leaders to help participants further their talent and interact with other members of the diverse international community of student filmmakers.

Last year’s Watersprite Awards ceremony, held in March 2011, was hosted by Tom Hollander and served as the centrepiece of the festival’s exciting line-up of events, which included talks by Bill Nighy, Kevin Macdonald, Joe Walker, and Brian Woods. The contest received submissions from 21 countries across five continents, and presented 10 awards to filmmakers from the UK, Europe, and Asia.

The festival has produced tangible success for entrants: the winner of our inaugural Film of the Year was ‘Who’s Afraid of the Water Sprite?’, directed by Will McGregor. This beautifully-shot supernatural thriller is now – as a direct result of the festival – being made into a feature film called The Rising.

Additionally, Aurite Kouts, one of the winners of our Script Lab competition in 2011, submitted her revised script ‘Fur Coat’ to the Zagreb Jewish Film Festival talent workshop and it was selected to be made.

This year’s Watersprite Awards will be held on 25 February 2012, and will again be the centrepiece of the festival weekend. We will be presenting awards in the following categories:

Genre

  • Animation
  • Documentary
  • Fiction

Technical

  • Acting (as an ensemble cast)
  • Cinematography
  • Direction
  • Editing
  • Original screenplay
  • Original score/soundtrack
  • Sound editing

We hope to see you at our festival in February – possibly collecting an award! – in what promises to be the biggest and best Watersprite yet!

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