This year’s festival featured an impressive 124 short films across 20 strands and welcomed over 1,400 people, which provided an exciting and diverse range of cinematic experiences for all attendees.
Submissions for 2025’s edition open from 8 August 2024 & will close on 20 December 2024 – Visit our page on Filmfreeway for more information.
Without further ado please see below our 2024 Festival Award Winners across our competition’s main categories & craft awards:
Best British Short Film:
Winner – Sister Wives
Best Experimental Short:
Winner – Drift
Break The Stigma:
Winner – Exchange Rate
Best Documentary Short:
Winners – Layers of Reed + Love, Me
Micro Short Movie:
Winner – I Can’t Not Feel It
East Coast Short:
Winner – Seeing Read
East Anglian Student Film:
Winner – White Feather
International Short Film:
Winner – Every Other Weekend
Best UK Student Short Film:
Winner – Burnt Country
Best Animated Short Film:
Winner – Into The Next Tide
Sunrise Studios presents Special Recognition:
Winner – Aquaphobia
Best Actor:
Winner – Emily Kennedy
Best Director:
Winner – Louisa Connolly-Burnham
Best Story:
Winner – Aquaphobia
Best Sound Design:
Winner – Sister Wives
Best Cinematography:
Winner – Sister Wives
Best Drama:
Winner – Pops
Best Comedy:
Winner – Poppet
For a full list of our 2024 nominees visit our nominees page below:
