Key Dates

  • Festival
    21 July 2012

News

2012 Call for Entries

Wimbledon's alternative film club, the WFC, hosts the fifth Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival on 21 July 2012. We've got great people from across the film industry organising and judging the event.

Wimbledon Shorts is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative work in film and video from around the world. Whether your film is narrative driven, animated or experimental, we're looking for films that challenge or shift the boundaries of conventional filmmaking. Just as long as it's under 15 minutes!

Prizes
£500 prize for WFC Award for Best Wimbledon Shorts Film
'Meet with an Industry Expert' for Winner of the Best Student Filmmaker Award.

2012 Judges

  • Lila Rawlings: Development Editor, Film4
  • Andrew Pulver: Film Editor, The Guardian
  • Manu Luksch: artist and filmmaker
  • Dominic Buttimore: director, Th1ng Animation
  • Nick Brimble, actor
  • Derek Malcolm: Film critic
  • Josh Appignanesi: film director ("The Infidel")
  • Avie Luthrie: BAFTA-nominated film director ("Mad, Bad and Sad")
  • Julia Blackman, co-founder and Executive Producer of Scion Films
  • Allisa Ferrier, Acquisitions Executive, Artificial Eye
  • Nick Toon, Vice President, UK Public Policy, Time Warner

How to enter

entries are now closed for the 2012 competition

Congratulations to Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe for winning the Short animation prize at the Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) with their 2011 WFC SHORTS-winning film, "A Morning Stroll"!
Also Oscar nominated!

http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16873627