And the winners are…
One commentMichael Whyte’s documentation NO GREATER LOVE about about the Carmelite nuns in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Notting Hill won the Feature Film Competition!
NO GREATER LOVE
It was only after ten years of correspondence with the Monastery that award-winning film and television director Michael Whyte was allowed to enter the premises of what is perhaps one of the most stringent cloisters left in the West. Here, nuns uphold silence for as long as twenty-two hours a day and have but two hours of recreation, rarely leave the premises except to visit a doctor or dentist, and are entirely devoted to prayer and meditation. Michael Whyte does not use a narrator but quietly and observantly follows the nuns as they pray, sing hymns, cook, tend the garden and make their own clothes. A few nuns are interviewed and their charm and wit confound general perception and show that nuns are not only serious all the time but can be humorous too.
NO GREATER LOVE offers an inspiring and absorbing insight into religion at the same time that it presents an alternative way of living so removed in its tranquility from our frantic and materialistic lifestyle.
Our prize for Best Feature Film is sponsored by the production company Pictorion | Das Werk. The winner gets 16 hours of post production at Pictorion | Das Werk (worth 12.000 Euro). Furthermore, Pictorion - Das Werk sponsored a special statuette which will be awarded to the winning film: This sculpture was developed and produced by the Berlin-based artist Holger Beisitzer.
Simon Tofield’s SIMON’S CAT: TV DINNER won the short film competition.
Inspired by his own cats Hugh, Maisie, Jess and Teddy, he triggered a proper fan boom on the world wide web with SIMON’S CAT: His four films reached over 29 million hits on youtube which got him the Blockbuster Award. Meanwhile, the correspondent comic book has been released. Three of the cat comics will be shown at britspotting: LET ME IN, TV DINNER and FLY GUY.
The winner of the britspotting short film competition gets a free membership and a Two Day Screenwriting course at The Script Factory, Great Britain’s renowned scriptwriting school.
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Brilliant. It does make you wonder about different levels of religion and the impact on those involved lifes. Very powerful filming.