2010 Short Film Competition Winners Announced

We are proud to announce the winners of our Short Film City Competitions. The winners and special mentions are:

World Animation Award
Winner - Angry Man
Special Mention - Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society
Special Mention - Love Potato

International Short Film Competition
Winner - Deeper Than Yesterday
Special Mention - Vilay

Yorkshire Short Film Competition
Winner - The Astronomer's Sun
Special Mention - Outside

Best of British Short Film Competition
Winner - The Birdman of Tamworth
Special Mention - Tad's Nest

The jury members were:
Loles Barrio, Director and Producer of documentary short films
Mike McKenny, Contributor/film festival reporter for Film&Festivals magazine
Yan Szczesnowicz, Head of Media & Film production at Leeds City College

Download the full jury statement here.

Welcome to Short Film City

Every section of Leeds International Film Festival is a unique programme, each one almost a film festival in itself. You could just see all the screenings and events in Short Film City to experience the vast diversity of the real world of cinema - films from every continent, archive and new films, documentary, fiction, experimental, and animated, comedies, dramas and fantasies.

Short Film City 2010 is big on events and competitions. As Leeds Town Hall has become the Film Festival's main venue, we have the chance to present audience favourites and short film gala shows in the venue's grand setting. The Town Hall is the new home for the ever popular World Animation Competition, and for the first time we are presenting a silent comedy film concert, Laugh Out Loud, that is set to be one of the highlights of the whole film festival. At the opening event of Short Film City on 8th November we have a real treat: screening with some of the best films in the 2010 selection will be fascinating, historic and often hilarious footage of Leeds from British Pathe.

The 2010 International Short Film Competition in three parts features some of the most acclaimed work of the year, with discoveries from short film festivals in Krakow, Hamburg, and Oberhausen, and from selections at Cannes and Venice. Out of competition programmes include the unique animations of Estonia, French comedy shorts, and the amazing creations of Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost. The Hyde Park Picture House is the host for the finale of Short Film City 2010, with a double bill of the UK and Yorkshire Competitions.