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The Devil's Fork team won Best Popular Shortlist Film and Best Screenplay
Mind The Gap won Best Sound as well as Best Actor
Deni Jirotka wins Best Actress for her role in Therapy
Samsa Wandelt Um won Best Editor
David Neve (left) celebrates winning Best Cinematography for the film Beholder whilst Dead Time guys (right) scooped Best Visual Effects and Best Gore Awards
Over 300 Filmmakers and audience came from all over the UK to spend the day watching 51 films at the ‘2 Days Later 10 Competition Halloween Screening & Awards Event’ at The Theatre Royal, Margate. The second oldest Georgian theatre in the country is home to a ghost or two of its own and the venue provided a magnificent backdrop to Kent’s biggest and scariest film screening event.
Since July 2010, entrants from as far as Rwanda, Indonesia, Australia and Canada, have been downloading the competition brief from the 2 Days Later website and then taking up the challenge to make a their mini-horror masterpieces in under 48hrs, that had to feature three items from a given list as part of their film productions.
From over 800 internet downloads and 51 film entries to competition, the judging panel final decision was that female filmmaking duo from Romsey, Trudie Shutler & Natalie Garwin ‘s film, A Boy’s Best Friend, was the definitive winner! A chilling tale of a boy’s slippery secret in the cupboard. Winning a week’s hire of a professional Canon HD Cine Film Kit from London sponsor’s VMI Broadcast, worth over £2000! And being a guest on an advertising film shoot in London with Farm advertising agency, courtesy of local Thanet 2DL judge Dave Clark.
The 300-strong audience had other ideas for their favourite film of the evening, as their choice was by former UKC students, Dan Thompson and J T Eaton, for the archaeological find comic horror, The Devil’s Fork, ‘What can men do against such reckless cutlery!’ Whose duo leading roles were both nominated for BEST ACTOR.
Etchingham based Andrew Robinson & David Neve’s film The Beholder opened the Shortlisted Screenings and won BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, and was also nominated for BEST SOUND, & BEST EDITOR.
Broadstairs based director Mark Gregory film Mind the Gap was nominated for 8 film awards and scooped BEST SOUND & BEST ACTOR, with Leo Cullen-Crouch’s rock solid performance as a late night commuter victim. While Ramsgate based filmmaker Oliver Case’s film Therapy, was nominated for the audience vote for BEST POPULAR SHORTLIST, and won the BEST ACTRESS award for his mother Deni Jirotka playing, Oliver’s concerned mother!
Broadstair’s based filmmaking duo Tristian John S & Samuel Pearce’s black comedy 2 Shorts Later was a horrid pun on the film competition that was extremely well executed, popular amongst the filmmaking audience, and nominated for BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS.
