Sweet Like Lemons Longlisted for a BAFTA Award

Sweet Like Lemons has been longlisted by a jury for this year’s BAFTA awards in the British Short Animation category. The awards “recognise and celebrate the outstanding storytellers of our time, and the craft that goes into making the films, games and TV shows that enrich our culture.” Six films were selected to advance onto the longlist from which nominations will be made by a jury and go ahead to this year’s ceremony.

BAFTA Film Committee Chair, Anna Higgs, said: “The publication of the EE BAFTA Film Awards longlists is one our favourite dates in the awards season calendar […] Today we are shining a light on 69 incredible films that BAFTA voters have the difficult task of whittling down to the final nominees list.  I encourage everyone to go see these films and make their own minds up. Huge congratulations to those longlisted today, it’s an extraordinary achievement and a testament to the phenomenal talent in our industry.” 

My Other Suit Is Human Nominated for an IFTA

My Other Suit is Human has been nominated by the Irish Film & Television Academy in their Short Film category for the 2021 Irish Film & Television Awards. The awards celebrate the wealth of Irish talent in the film and television industry whilst also shedding light on upcoming talent. Other shows receiving nominations for the awards include ‘Normal People’, ‘Killing Eve’, ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘His Dark Materials’ with films such as Netflix’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ also being recognised.

Interview with Epigram

Interview by Lauren Paddison (Music Subeditor of Epigram)

In the interview we touch on the subjects of the difficult jump from student to freelance life as well as what it was like leaving university at the time of the Me Too movement.

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Strength Nominated for Peer Raben Music Award

Extremely pleased to say, particularly in such strange times, that the score for Strength (dir. Hedvig Ahlberg & Agathe Barbier) has been nominated by Soundtrack Cologne for the Peer Raben Music Award.

Here is the official statement from Soundtrack Cologne: “The Peer Raben Music Award is awarded for the twelfth time this summer. Films scores with innovative and dramatically coherent use of music and sound in relation to the narrative will be honored. The award commemorates the great German film composer Peer Raben.”

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'Altitude' piece selected for Universal's 100% HER production music album in collaboration with shesaid.so

This week it was announced that Altitude will feature on Universal Production Music’s upcoming album 100% HER created in collaboration with shesaid.so who aim to make equality within the music industry a reality. The electronic track was selected from 470 submissions from women across the world - from France to Turkey, Australia to Sweden!

For more information on the role of Production Music within the music industry, shesaid.so have written a very helpful article ‘An Introduction to Production Music’

The album will be released on March 6th in time for International Women’s Day.

Strength features in 'Girls in Film'

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Co-directors >> London based, Swedish born, filmmaker Hedvig Ahlberg and French filmmaker Agathe Barbier made a film to pay tribute to, and shed the light on,  hardships that mothers, sisters, lovers and friends have gone through, and continue to go through, every day. It is a film to celebrate that strength.

Set to the slam poetry piece, "Lessons in Olympic Weightlifting", by poet Adele Hampton we look through the lens of a female weightlifter. Allowing us to see what it is to be a great mom and/or great athlete through the female body's obstacles: menstruation, childbirth and female specific diseases such as breast cancer and endometriosis; as well as domestic work, domestic violence and the plight of patriarchy. 

Ahlberg and Barbier << We saw Adele performing at a slam poetry night in London, and fell in love with her presence and skill. We immediately knew that we wanted to collaborate with her, and that was the start of Strength.

It was important for us to create a space and atmosphere off camera that symbolises what we were shooting - we wanted everyone to have input and feel like they were a part of making Strength, so working with an all-female crew felt like a natural decision

To make the film come alive we wanted it to have a strong look and unique sound. Luciana our DP created a cinematic landscape that we could never have dreamed of, and Sarah who composed the score for the film translated all the emotions we wanted to convey on screen into sound. >>

Barbeque wins Cristal Award at Annecy Festival and Best European Animation at Premier Plans 2018

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Barbeque to be screened on Channel 4 as part of Random Acts S5 Ep3

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Proud to announce that Barbeque (dir. Jenny Jokela) has been curated by Random Acts to be part of their latest series this coming summer.

Random Acts is Channel 4's short film strand dedicated to the arts, founded in 2011 to escape the conventions of arts broadcasting and to expand its possibilities.

“Random Acts should push boundaries, provoke thought and play with form. The strand showcases work from as diverse a range of creative people as we can find from across the UK and beyond - giving breaks to new talents and premiering work by established ones.”

To date, the strand has featured Riz Ahmed, Zawe Ashton, Shia La Beouf, Gemma Chan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Ai Weiwei, Tinie Tempah, Kate Tempest, Gillian Wearing, Kwes, Marina Abramovic and many more. 

Series 1 - 4 of Random Acts premiered 2016 - 2017, with Series 5 and 6 of Random Acts set to air in 2018