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Encounters Festival 2013 award-winners

Monday, September 23 2013

British filmmakers won the top two awards at the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival for the first time.

Both winning films now qualify for Oscar nomination.

Director Jamie Stone took the Brief Encounters Grand Prix Award for his short film Orbit Ever After, starring Mackenzie Crook, Thomas Brodie-Sangster (below) and Bronagh Gallagher in a sci-fi comedy about falling in love while living aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the girl of your dreams spinning around earth the wrong way.

Felix Massie won the Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award for In the Air is Christopher Gray. He used to work at Arthur Cox and Aardman animating and directing commercials, broadcast and online content.

His award-winning film is also about young love, this time set in a quiet American town, where children entertain themselves by jumping over worms on their BMXs.

This year was the inaugural year for the Music Video Award, with the accolade going to Stardust directed by Mischa Rozema.

Two Bristol-based filmmakers took the top spots in the South West categories this year.

0117 Hour Challenge winners Bristol Sprout took the Brief Encounters Best of South West Award, with Behind The Journey, a short film made in just 117 hours featuring interviews with the cleaners who work in First’s St Philip’s Marsh train depot.

Karni and Saul took their first Encounters gong, winning the Animated Encounters Best of South West award for music video Winter Trees for Watford three-piece The Staves.

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I think the instigator of this post is rather disingenuous or deluded in thinking that Cabot Circus has had that much affect on the decline of parts of Broadmead; It wasn't doing well even before the former was built. Many of the units are too small and outdated for most major retailers and too expensive in rents and business rates for most new, smaller or independent businesses; the latter two issues Cabot Circus has no control or arguably effect over, rather it's the fault of numerous landlords who own property in Broadmead and the government in Whitehall. Even before the Cabot Circus was built rents and business rates were alarmingly high for what was then an incredibly poor retail area. Another major issue (which seems to be conveniently ignored) is the fact that Cribbs Causeway exists ( and numerous out of town retail parks), which for a decade had a significant effect in drawing away shoppers. If Cabot Circus not been built the effect would be even worse than it is now, at least the latter has brought people back to the city centre and not just to shop. Had Cabot Circus or a similar development not been built we'd be like Newport, Swansea, or Gloucester city centres are now. Those are not cities Bristol should even remotely be emulating. People need to get over the idea that Cabot Circus is somehow the worst thing in the world, when it was one the best things to happen in central Bristol for a very long time.
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I was amazed when I was last in the city, having not been there for some months. Broadmead was in a truly awful state. Shop after shop empty. As someone who recalls teenage years spent shopping in a bustling and vibrant city centre I was very shocked. Mind you I guess fact I hadn't been there in so long is part of the problem - would be shoppers now just go elsewhere.
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What about the Treble Chance and the Pegasus in Southmead? Classy and cheap!
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