Winners

Watersprite 2024

On Saturday 2nd March we held the Watersprite Awards with Amazon MGM Studios where our 19 winners of the evening were announced.

Each winner received unique prizes thanks to our wonderful prize partners.

CLOUDY

While avoiding a conversation with his mum, Elliot encounters a peculiar little creature in need of his assistance!
Sound Design Winner: Lee Zhaoheng Ryan
Country: Singapore
COMMON GROUND

When Dylan returns from university to his rural childhood home he faces a decision between his duty to the land and his desire for freedom.
Screenplay Winner: Solomon Smith
Country: UK
DADDY

A young woman rents a dad for one evening.
Casarotto Ramsay Directing Winner: Ella Knorz
Country: Germany
HOMEMAKER

Renee loses herself in a controlling relationship and the abuse she suffers gets worse until she is utterly trapped.
Wychwood Media Social Impact Winner: Ciara Kerr
Country: UK
LULLABY FOR THE LOST

A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.
Union VFX Experimental Winner: Tom Potter
Country: UK
NEAR LIGHT

A young man, convicted murderer, has a chance of redemption when he enters the best Italian university of economics, going back and forth from prison to university every day.
Documentary Winner: Niccolò Salvato
Country: Italy & UK
NØKKELBARN

Young Erik is forced to make a family-fracturing decision.
Script Compass Development Prize Winner
Country: Norway
ON PURPOSE (META)

Early spring in a lonely village. An 8-year-old girl Mėta struggles to find help for her injured dog. Mėta’s journey raises questions about guilt and collective responsibilities of the community.
United Agents Performance Winner: Elena Vasiliauskaitė
Country: Lithuania
REMEMBER?

An old divorced couple with Alzheimer’s see each other for the first time in 10 years.
Costume Design Winner: Florence Earnshaw
Country: UK
SONG OF THE TADPOLE

The heart-warming life story of a girl and her pet tadpole.
Original Film Music Winner: Louis Marlowe
Country: UK
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Il compleanno di Enrico)

A discovery of horror.
Salon Editing Winner: Francesco Sossai
Production Design Winner: Paula Meuthen
Cinematography Winner: Giulia Schelhas
Country: Germany & France & Italy
THE STEAK

A birthday ceremony preparation gets upside down as something horrible takes place.
Seven.One Fiction Winner: Kiarash Dadgar
Kingdom Creative Audience Award Winner
Neil Gaiman Film of the Year Winner
Country: Iran
TO THE MOON AND BACK (月見ごこち)

A story about birth and death.
Animation Winner: Shuqin Li
Country: Japan & China