On Monday, Agbo announced the winners of their fourth annual 48-hour short filmmaking competition, No Sleep ’til Film Fest, underscoring their commitment to championing emerging filmmakers.
Christina Brennan, an emerging filmmaker from New York City, won first place for her short “Dear Nora,” which follows a young woman confronting her inner critic as she struggles to embrace her own worth and find beauty in life’s small moments. Second place was awarded to the directing team of Ben David Sharp and Josh Madison Lewis from Glasgow, Scotland, for their apocalyptic short “Fall,” a wordless drama where two unlikely allies face the decision to cooperate or fight for survival. Elijah Boulton, an independent filmmaker from Nova Scotia, took third place for his film “The Universal Language,” the quirky tale of a man who orders a synthetic girlfriend only to discover a unique language barrier between them.
Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies,...
Christina Brennan, an emerging filmmaker from New York City, won first place for her short “Dear Nora,” which follows a young woman confronting her inner critic as she struggles to embrace her own worth and find beauty in life’s small moments. Second place was awarded to the directing team of Ben David Sharp and Josh Madison Lewis from Glasgow, Scotland, for their apocalyptic short “Fall,” a wordless drama where two unlikely allies face the decision to cooperate or fight for survival. Elijah Boulton, an independent filmmaker from Nova Scotia, took third place for his film “The Universal Language,” the quirky tale of a man who orders a synthetic girlfriend only to discover a unique language barrier between them.
Then, there was Tommy Heffernan’s Body Buddies,...
- 11/4/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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