Best of Boroughs Film Awards (aka the BoBs)
The films listed below have been produced through Film London’s 2008 London Borough Film Fund Challenge (LBFFC) – a short film fund which supports new film-making talent.
From this shortlist of 13 short films, just two were selected to receive a top prize at Film London’s annual Best of Borough Film Awards (BoBs) in July 2009. We are pleased to announce that Hackney film-maker Alex Taylor won the Jury Award for Kids Might Fly, and Gary Grant from Enfield was presented with the Audience Award for Daisy’s Last Stand.
Fresh Off The Boat (Havering)
Director: Femi Oyeniran
A teenager joins his mother and siblings from Nigeria but struggles to adapt to an alien way of life in the directorial debut of Kidulthood star Femi Oyeniran.
Kids Might Fly (Hackney)
Director: Alex Taylor
A young homeless girl is taken into care. Set in an urban wilderness, this film is an offbeat and touching portrait of young people in East London.
The Moth Catcher (Haringey)
Director: Miguel Guzman / Iyvone Khoo
A cybernetic nymph sits in her moth-catching machine waiting for prey in this visually stunning film, which incorporates live action puppetry and uses all recycled materials.
Finding Sol (Camden)
Director: Stella Scott
Sol and Mia used to fly around the world in their imaginary plane until life suddenly took them on separate paths. Now-grown-up Mia wants to revisit the past.
Daisy's Last Stand (Enfield)
Director: Gary Grant
Daisy knows that she’s got Alzheimer’s, but will not stay at home waiting to die. It’s Saturday night and she’s going out.
Molly & Plum (Wandsworth)
Director: Rupert Raby
A troublesome youth meets his match when doing community service in a care home. An impromptu road trip in a stolen van leads the duo to some surprising places.
Bubbling Under (Redbridge)
Director: Matt Compton
Will is unemployed, desperate, with a bedridden wife. At a job interview from hell, we begin to see the cracks in his perception of reality.
Milk Watch (Newham)
Director: Michael Taylor
An all-singing, all-crime-stopping musical about milkmen on a mission.
Transit (Westminster)
Director: Chris Roche
In transit in a London airport, a young boy stumbles across the path of a desperate man and finds a message that he cannot ignore.
Still Life (Barking and Dagenham)
Directors: Nelson & Kuvera Sivalingham
Krishna, a young Sri Lankan Londoner, is hell bent on earning ‘respect’ in this time-fractured drama which offers an imaginative take on gang culture.
A Guide To Lovemaking (Lewisham)
Director: Christian Hayes
An elderly couple try to revitalise their love life in this sparkling story of romance, devotion, and watersports.
The Blurring in Between (Islington)
Director: Jimmy Swindells
Rhys, a 30 year old paranoid schizophrenic, is released from a mental institution after being sectioned for six months. But can he readjust to the real world?
Mrs Birks' Sunday Roast (Tower Hamlets)
Director: Kyoko Miyake
A Japanese food writer blends her passion for British food with the memories that accompany each dish, in this touching documentary, a labour of love with all the trimmings.
