Awards & Prizes
Officially selected films will receive festival laurels as well as an invitation to the live screenings. Winners in each category will receive an official Leicester City Film Festival Trophy as well as a framed award certificate. All runners up will receive an award certificate.
The award categories are:
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Best Short ( under 60 mins )
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Best International Short ( under 60 mins )
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Best Super Short ( 3 mins and under )
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Best International Super Short ( 3 mins and under )
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Best Trailer
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Best International Trailer
Winners 2016
Title: ALIK
Director: Aitor Almuedo
Award: Best Int'l Short
Synopsis: Alik is a young man stranded in the past, he has created an imaginary magical world based on his memories, his obscure past chases him as he struggles with a mission, however, this all is about be changed by destiny.
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Title: ALIENS
Director: Jiajie Yu Yan
Award: Best Short
Synopsis: A young woman arrives in a new city. She looks at the people around her and realizes that she doesn’t belong to that world.
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Title: CHOCOLATE DAEWIN
Director: Patxi Exequiel Aguirre & Kiana Naghshineh
Award: Best Int'l Trailer
Synopsis: A tale in rhymes about God, Darwin, The Moon, Dinosaurs, Monkeys, Mankind and far too much chocolate.
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Title: PORTRAIT OF A WIND-UP MAKER
Director: Dario Parez
Award: Best Int'l Super Short
Synopsis: Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of art from recycle items. Entirely digital animation movie.
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Title: THE ONLY TWO
Director: Joseph Gorman
Award: Best Super Short
Synopsis: A lone tired driver is involved in an accident with a cyclist on an isolated country road. But things may not be as they seem .
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Title: THE PERFECT PROTEIN
Director: Caterina Barjau &
Jorge Martínez
Award: Best Trailer
Synopsis: While the sea is living through the most exhausting moment of its history, only 30 countries control more than the 90% of the capture fish. The Oceana NGO amd the world's best chefs propose solutions to overfishing that will afford to feed part ...
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