Awards and Juries
Having to choose award-winners from the Birds Eye View programme is a tough call. We only show the very best, so really, cliche though it is, everyone’s a winner! Our juries, however, were up for the challenge and at our Closing Night Gala on 12th March the Festival Awards were announced:
Best Feature
Winner: Lourdes directed by Jessica Hausner
Presented by: Patricia Hodge
Jury: Clare Binns Programming Director City Screen, Louise Jury Chief Arts Correspandent London Evening Standard, Christine Langan Creative Director, BBC Films and Johnathan Romney Film Critic, The Independent.
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2010/lourdes
Best Documentary
Winner: Junior directed by Jenna Rosher
Presented by: Sally Hawkins
Jury: Mary Burke; Producer (A Complete History of My Sexual Failure, All Tomorrows Parties) Xiaolu Guo; Filmmaker & Novelist (She, A Chinese, Once Upon a Time Proletarian)Hannah Pool; Journalist and Author(My Father's Daughter)and Sally Hawkins, Actress (Happy Go lucky, An Education.)
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2010/junior
Best Short
Winner: Slaves Dir. Hanna Heilborn and David Aronowitsch and The Door Dir. Juanita Wilson
Presented by: Bonnie Wright Actress,(Harry Potter)
Jury: Virginie Selavy Editor, Electric Sheep Magazine, Meera Syal Writer (Bhaji on the Beach, Anita and Me), Tom Vaughn Head Programmer, Future Shorts and Tricia Tuttle Events Producer, BAFTA.
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2010/shorts
