Ealing Film Festival Awards, 2023
And it’s a wrap!
Our 2023 festival reached its climax with a glitzy awards ceremony at the Ealing Project cinema on Saturday 25 November.
We made awards in twelve categories, with an additional award for Best Film.
ANIMATION
Candlelight
Director: Scott Newton
COMEDY
Spag Bol
Director: Brick
DOCUMENTARY
KALU: Growing Up Wild
Director: Roman Willi & Matteo Clarke
A thank you from the filmmakers for their award,
Watch here and at the bottom of this page as well
EXPERIMENTAL
Innocence
Director: Trudie Shutler
GREEN PLANET AWARD
To My Dying Mother
Director: Johanna von Salmuth
HOMEGROWN AWARD
Jalebi Nights
Director: Ganesh Sharma
HORROR/SUSPENSE
Help Point
Director: Annabella Forbes
MUSIC VIDEO
Walk On Water
Directed by Hynek Gannon
NARRATIVE DRAMA
Like a Dog
Director: Hamid Naseri Moghadam
and
Little Turtle
Director: Mingyang Li
SCI-FI/FANTASY
Death Date
Director: Alex Mathieson
SMARTPHONE
Paludarium
Director: Woong Bae Ji
STUDENT AWARD
Deep Fake Love
Director: Otto Shed
BEST FILM OF THE FESTIVAL
(Joint Winners)
Little Turtle
Director: Mingyang Li
and
Candlelight
Director: Scott Newton
Many congratulations to all our winners!
Andrew and the audience.
Bafta-winning director Coky Giedroyc (second right) with previous award winners
The Official Selections are available to view online on Vimeo through December 29, 2023, so they are accessible to our filmmakers across the world.
And you can be a judge too! Vote for your favouite film on the People’s Choice award. Information here.
And after so long without a High Street cinema, we are proud to be part of a process that has brought film back to the borough of Ealing, where it belongs.
We hope you will be with us in 2024!