For our Short Film Award 2013 we put out a call for submissions for short films relating to the Reel Islington Film Festival 2013 theme of ‘A Place Called England’.

We received numerous high quality films covering a wide range of genres and formats. At the Short Film Award & Screening judges Adam Roberts and Ben Woolford gave honourable mentions to Emma Barnie for ‘Still Life’ and Bruno Ramos for ‘Factory’, before revealing that the winner of this year’s award is Andy Oxley for his film ‘White English Men’.

White English Men by Andy Oxley (Winner, Reel Islington Short Film Award 2013)

White English Men from Reel Islington on Vimeo.

Andy Oxley - Winner

Judge Ben Woolford, Winner Andy Oxley, Queen Elizabeth II, and Judge Adam Roberts.

 
Factory by Bruno Ramos (Honourable Mention, Reel Islington Short Film Award 2013)

Factory from Reel Islington on Vimeo.

Still Life by Emma Barnie (Honourable Mention, Reel Islington Short Film Award 2013)

Still Life from Reel Islington on Vimeo.

The Judges

• Adam Roberts is a filmmaker and long-standing adviser on the Film4 Channel. Together with Archipelago director Joanna Hogg, Roberts runs A Nos Amours, a collective dedicated to programming over-looked, under-exposed or especially potent cinema. His films Stiletto and Remake have just come out on filmarmalade dvds. He once was film editor and has tried his hand at shooting, writing and sound recording. He has worked on 8mm, 35mm, miniDv and HD video. A paper on dance film will come out soon in the International Journal of Screen Dance.

• Tim Robey has been reviewing films, interspersed with the occasional interview, for the Telegraph since 2000. He read classics at University College, Oxford, and was runner-up for best arts journalist in both the Guardian and Independent Student Media Awards in 1999. He has been a UK media correspondent for Variety, and co-edited The DVD Stack (Canongate), a guide to the best versions of films available globally

• Ben Woolford is a film producer:
2012 Aluna (documentary) (Executive Producer)
2007 Puffball (Producer)
2003 The Wooden Camera (Co-Producer)
2002 A Social Call (short) (Executive Producer)
2001 This Filthy Earth (Producer)
2000 Taste of China (short) (Producer)
1999 Beautiful People (Producer)
1997 Gallivant (Producer)
1996 Dah Dit Dah (TV movie) (Producer)
1994 Body (short) (Producer)
1993 Smart Alek (short) (Producer)