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BRITDOC 08 - The Winners

The 2008 edition of Britdoc wrapped up on Friday with an award ceremony announcing the best films and pitches of the festival. Over three days of beautiful weather and G&Ts on the lawn (so very Oxford) the festival brought a selection of the best British documentaries, as well as international features chosen by some of the best festivals from around the world. So to the winners:

The Audience Award went to DFG Member Jerry Rothwell for his film Heavy Load, which he pitched at the inaugural edition of the festival back in 2006. Read his blog posts from back then here on the DFG Community.

The much-lauded Man on Wire won Best Film and by all accounts was much deserved, as was the winner of the award for Best Short - The Solitary Life of Cranes. A beautiful, revealing and multi-layered film by Eva Weber, director of The Intimacy of Strangers.

Best pitch went to Julie Moggan's highly entertaining trailer and pitch for Guilty Pleasures, about the worldwide phenomenon of Mills and Boon, while Hannah Patterson won the Short Pitch award for what is a real passion project, Shelter in Place.

Details of all the British films screened will appear on the DFGDocs/Directory shortly.

Related Pages

DFG reports from the festival (in retrospect) in the DFG Community

Posted by Kerry McLeod on 28/07/2008

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