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| Location | London, England |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
The UK Film Festival, founded in 2011, is a film festival held annually in Soho, London, in November. The festival aims to discover new filmmakers but always mixes established filmmakers into their screening programmes.
The UK Film Festival was started in 2011 by Mahdi H. Nejad and Murray Woodfield. [1]
Previous festival screenings have included films that have gone on to win Oscars including Ida, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Stutterer and The Phone Call . BAFTA winners include Operator. They also hosted the film festival world premiere of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot with Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and James Corden. They present awards for shorts, features, documentaries, animations, student shorts and music videos as well as special awards for excellence.
In addition to the festival, the organisers run a yearly short script competition. 2012 year's winner, Mike, went on to be co-produced by the UK Film Festival and won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale 2014), [2] the first British film to win this award. The following year their script winner, A Confession, was made into a film that among other international awards, also won the Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale 2015). [2] Both films were directed by Petros Silvestros and achieved worldwide distribution through Interfilm. The festival director is Murray Woodfield.
Awards categories include:
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