BIFA Best British Short Tag Archive

Awards, Live Action

Gus Flind-Henry & George Malcher Capture the Chaos and Heart of Teaching in BIFA Nominated Short ‘A Sisyphean Task’

Gus Flind-Henry and George Malcher share how small moments, big pressures and authenticity shaped their portrait of teaching in a South London state school.

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Animation, Awards

Baz Sells Crafts an Eden of Queer Black Love in Tender BIFA & BAFTA Nominated Stop Motion Short ‘Two

Baz Sells, Dean Atta & Ben Jackson trace the five-year journey of bringing their animated short to life, a stop-motion tale of self-acceptance and queer love.

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Awards, Live Action

The Rapid Escalation of Mob Mentality Consumes a Welsh Village in Mac Nixon’s Enigmatic BIFA Nominated Horror ‘Flock’

Mac Nixon discusses building a timeless and stark world in his monochrome horror, where a lone farmer becomes the target of his neighbours' panicked fear.

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Live Action

Tensions Boil Over as Preconceptions Shatter Amid the Hectic Heat of a Takeaway in Luís Hindman’s ‘MAGID / ZAFAR’

Luís Hindman breaks down his maximalist approach of building three distinct spaces within a busy British Pakistani takeaway for his LFF premiering short.

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Awards, Live Action

A Father’s Loneliness Erupts Corporeally In Matty Crawford’s SXSW Winning BAFTA Body Horror ‘Stomach Bug’

Matty Crawford chats to DN about building the horror fuelled landscape of his psychological drama about a lonely parent suffering from empty nest syndrome.

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