BEST FILM OF THE FESTIVAL

Finding Tyler – Chris Brannan/ Diana Reichenbach (USA)

ANIMATION

Joint winners: A New Life Tomorrow – Avy Signofthesharkboy (UK) and Cloud boy: An Autistic Journey – Kieran Firth-Bernard (UK)

COMEDY

At Home With Nick Mullins – Paul Longley/ James Longley (UK)

DOCUMENTARY

Finding Tyler – Chris Brannan/ Diana Reichenbach (USA)

EXPERIMENTAL

Day Dreaming – Zixuan Yang/ Ge Lu (China)

PHYLLIS CROCKER

The Bench – Rawaa Barnes ( UK)

HOMEGROWN AWARD

Joint winners: Woman of Your Dreams- Samantha Locock (UK)/ Special Delivery – Robert Hackett (UK)

HORROR/SUSPENSE

MindEaze – Tom Diffenthal, Jacob Welby (UK)

ENVIRONMENT

Centenary Film – A.D Cooper (UK)

NARRATIVE DRAMA

Joint winners: The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot – Ray Jacobs (UK) and Ido – Saman Mustepha (Iraq)

SCI-FI/FANTASY

Orbital Christmas – Mitsuyasu Sakai (Japan)

SMARTPHONE

Cola or Lemonade? Anna Lena Hohne (Germany)

STUDENT AWARD

Come Find Me – Nela Wagman (USA)

LOCKDOWN

Put Away – A.D. Cooper (UK)

PERFORMANCE

Vitality: Martha Graham – Rakesh Sidana (Canada)

Many congratulations to all our winners!

EFF 2021 Additional Laurels

Highly Commended

• The Curious Case of the Boy Jones
• Rabbit Run
• Origin
• Chums
• Teach Me
• Grey Sweats
• I want to Study
• Lucid Dreams
• Breach
• Something in the Silence
• The Effigy of Mary Seer
• Sunshine and Serenity
• Adventure Brothers
• Radar Man
• A Dead Sea
• Quiet on Set
• Come Close to me
• Transparent Dragonfly
• Captivity

Commended

• Our Connection with the Blue Mountains
• Puzzle
• Familiar
• Missed
• Myrtle
• But Happy
• Negatives
• Flutterby
• Leaks in Exposure
• No Mother
• Siphoned
• High and Dry
• Made in The Emerald Isle
• Windows on the real/My Mother’s Window
• Inevitability or how Dima fell in love with Inna

Ealing Film Festival 2021 – Other Laurels

• Candle Cops – Original Idea
• Play On – Screenplay
• Girl Interrupted – Comedy Performance
• Femme Fatale- Performance
• Allen Screw Loose – Performance
• Who’s a Good Man – Direction
• Cristina Zenata and the Reef Shark connection -Cinematography
• Exile- Cinematography
• Dead Run – Cinematography
• Kimana Tuskers – Highly Commended and Cinematography
• Wait a Moment – Sound
• Lunarcode: Cuttin’ the Chord – Music Video
• Orbital Christmas – Visual Effects
• Isolation – Editing