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We have a REEL TALENT winner….
Marcus Shepherd's The Sofa
Tue, 1 May 2007
…actually 3 winners! We’re delighted to announce that the three winning teams have finally been selected to make a REEL TALENT short – sponsored by the Audi Channel, and coordinated by The Hospital, Covent Garden’s club/studio and all-round groovy music and media venue. After a tense night of judging in which Bond composer David Arnold, director Neil Hunter, and eminent members of the press including Jonathan Romney (The Independent on Sunday) and Charles Gant (Heat) battled for their favourites, three scripts emerged triumphant winners. They are First by Tinge Krishnan and produced by Sasha Guttenstein; El Hoppo, by Marcus Shepherd which will be produced by Jonathan Taylor; and He Said from Suzi Ewing and Line Langebek Knudsen. The three teams are now ensconced in The Hospital for the next week where they will be picking their scripts to pieces before putting them back together again with help from The Script Factory and Exec Producers, Intrepido. Finally, they’ll be handed £10,000 each and sent off to complete their shoot this summer – and you will have the chance to judge the results yourself when the three films have been completed this Autumn and start the festival rounds.
Tinge Krishnan's Shadow ScanThe Audi Channel Reel Talent Award was a nationwide contest which is running for the second time (the first round sponsored by Smirnoff Experience). Last year’s winning shorts included Heavy Metal Drummer which went on to secure a BAFTA nomination. This time, we received over 180 high quality applications to make a five minute short on the theme of ‘First’.
Our three prize-winners have an enviable track record: Tinge Krishnan collected a BAFTA for a previous short Shadowscan; Marcus Shepherd secured funding from Working Title to make his previous short The Sofa and won the Oscar Moore Screenwriting prize; and Suzi Ewing’s Going Postal has been supported by the British Council to appear at Festivals including Berlin and Cannes and has been supported by 3 regional funding schemes to make three previous shorts.
The three projects all have a very distinct voice and all approached the ‘First’ theme in very different ways:
He Said – a troubled 12 yr old boy takes his younger sister to school on the bus. From his seat on the top deck he can see clearly into the first floor flats lining the bus route – and inside one of which is his father having breakfast with a second secret family…
First - a wholly original tale about a teenager from a special needs school who unwittingly finds herself taking part in a contest for talented young composers at the instigation of her hoodie classmate – but her love of music includes a pure love of process that the judges are shocked by…
El Hoppo - A peaceful, remote Spanish town is disturbed by the arrival of a hopping stranger, a man dishevelled and weary on a 20-year quest to hop the world. The villagers’ curiosity in him soon turns to suspicious dislike…
Thanks to all who submitted applications this year - and join us in wishing all our winners well as they head into production!
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