Best Feature

Winner: SNOW directed by Aida Begic

Presented by: Sally Philips

Jury: Stephen Woolley (producer Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Interview With a Vampire, Fever Pitch) , Larushka Ivan Zadeh (Metro), Pippa Cross (producer Vanity Fair, Bloody Sunday), Catherine Johnson (writer, Mamma Mia)

 

  • Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

    Larushka is Film Editor at Metro newspaper, she is also currently a regular reviewer and film contributor for Sky News, Radio 4’s 'Front Row' and 'The Strand' on the World Service. She has written on film for number of publications including The Guardian, Time Out, Total Film and The Evening Standard. She is a member of the London Film Critics Circle and has served on the jury of numerous film awards.

  • Catherine Johnson

    Catherine is the award-winning writer of the global smash musical Mamma Mia!, based on the songs of ABBA. She won the Pearson's Writer in Residence award with Boys Mean Business and the Pearson's Best Play award for Dead Sheep.
    Catherine has worked extensively in theatre with plays such as Too Much Too Young, Where's Willy?, Renegades, Shang-A-Lang, as well as writing the television film Sin Bin, creating the series Love in the 21st Century for Channel 4 and working on long-running dramas Casualty, Love Hurts, Byker Grove and Gold. Catherine is deeply committed to encouraging new writing through her position as a patron of Myrtle Theatre (Bristol) and as a panellist for the Pearson's bursaries, sponsoring The Best Play Award she herself won fifteen years ago.

  • Pippa Cross

    Pippa's career in film started, in the best of ways, with Jim Sheridan's 'My Left Foot and The Field'. She spent many years at Granada Media where as Head of Film she developed and produced/executive produced a slate of films and TV including 'Jack and Sarah', 'House of Mirth', 'The Hole', 'Bloody Sunday' and 'Vanity Fair'. On leaving Granada she formed independent production company 'CrossDay'. Pippa’s recent credits include 'Shooting Dogs' and currently, Philip Ridley's 'Heartless'. Pippa sits on the Board of Screen South, the advisory committee of the British Independent Film Awards and the Board of the UK Film Council.

  • Stephen Woolley

    Stephen has produced and executive produced over fifty movies. His credits as producer include many many films including the box office number 1, 'How To Lose Friends & Alienate People' (2008). His work has earned him numerous acclaimed awards and prestigious nominations, including winning the Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award from the Producer’s Guild of America for 'The Crying Game'. Stephen's forthcoming releases include 'Sounds Like Teen Spirit' and 'Perrier's Bounty'. Stephen is a patron of Birds Eye View film festival.