Delta Film Award

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The original Delta Film Award. Its current location is not known. DeltaAward1995 DONE.jpg
The original Delta Film Award. Its current location is not known.

The Delta Film Award was presented annually to the best amateur film screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England from 1990. The awards relaunched for the 2022 festival as a new short film competition, including a best-in-festival award.

Now plural, the Delta Film Award's are named in honour of the Delta group of amateur filmmakers whose efforts enlivened 1960s British science fiction conventions. Members included Tony Edwards and the late Harry Nadler, founding members along with Gil Lane-Young of the Society of Fantastic Films, which oversaw the Manchester festival.

The Delta Film Award celebrated significant achievement by low-budget directors.

The award was relaunched for the 2022 festival with a new short film competition following the death of Gil Lane-Young, with a committee of festivalgoers agreeing to update the annual Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester while retaining the event's unique atmosphere and intimate feel. The festival gained a new website and revamped social media presence.

For the first time in 2022, Delta film submissions are via the Film Freeway website. Awards will be given in three categories: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. No film submitted can be longer than 20 minutes. The award continues to attract international interest.

A new best-in-festival award was also announced in honour of the late British horror film director Norman J. Warren, a regular attendee at the Manchester festival. Entries are being overseen by Darrell Buxton, with the chair of judges for 2022 named as Warren's long-time friend and collaborator, screenwriter and critic David McGillivray.

Previous Delta judges have included Warren himself, freelance journalist Steve Green (also awards administrator for many years), film journalists M J Simpson, Calum Waddell, Darrell Buxton and Tris Thompson, horror author Stephen Gallagher, former Critical Wave reviewer Ray Holloway and actor David Hess.

The following information was researched from various sources by Steve Green and George Houston and it is, to their knowledge, as accurate as the sources suggest:

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References

  1. ↑ http://rossshepherd.co.uk/index.php?start_from=10&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=&%5B%5D Ross Shepherd's website, noting the film's receipt of the 2005 Delta Film Award
  2. ↑ http://rossshepherd.co.uk/press.html%5B%5D Review by M J Simpson, mentioning his work judging the 2005 Delta Film Award
  3. ↑ "ELY". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-09-14. Darkline Entertainment website, noting the film's receipt of the 2006 Delta Film Award
  4. ↑ http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/eddielovesyou.html Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Review by M J Simpson, mentioning his work judging the 2006 Delta Film Award
  5. ↑ http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/fanfilmfest2006.html Report by Jonathan Cowie on the 17th Festival of Fantastic Films, including references to the 2006 Delta Film Award
  6. ↑ http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/festival_of_fantastic_films_2007.html Report by Darrell Buxton on the 18th Festival of Fantastic Films, including references to the 2007 Delta Film Award
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