Cat Bruce’s No Place Like Home scooped the Animation award at the 2016 British Academy Scotland Awards 2016 on 6th November.

The ceremony took place at Glasgow’s Radisson Blu Hotel and was hosted by Edith Bowman. The Awards celebrated the very best in film, television and games produced over the last year in Scotland.

No Place Like Home was one of six New Talent Short films commissioned by the Scottish Film Talent Network in 2015. The SFTN consortium comprises the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), DigiCult and Hopscotch Films.

Congratulations to Cat Bruce, Neil Jack and the rest of the team!

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Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson’s Monkey Love Experiments has done it again! The animation has won the Channel 4 Innovation Award for Storytelling, a new prize at the Glasgow Short Film Festival.

The jury said the following:

“This intricate combination of stop motion, live action and 3D animation transported us into a singular, surreal environment. Seeing the world through the eyes of a confused – and somewhat deluded – primate, elicited deep emotional responses from the jury.”

The award was made at the closing event of the festival on Sunday 15 March.

Most of the Scottish Shorts 2014 slate competed this year at GSFF – Ian Waugh’s As He Lay Falling, Martin Smith’s Seagulls, Rory Alexander Stewart’s Wyld and Monkey Love Experiments. Last year, Cara Connolly and Martin Clark’s Exchange and Mart won the GSFF Audience Award.

Congratulations to  Ainslie, Will, Cameron Fraser of Ko Lik and the rest of the crew involved!

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Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson’s Monkey Love Experiments has won another award! The film nabbed the award for Best Animation at the London Short Film Festival on Sunday 18th January.

This follows its BAFTA nomination earlier this month, and its BAFTA Scotland win for Best Animation in November.

Also, Ruth Paxton won Best Woman Director for her work on Pulse, a short commissioned via the NEW MUSIC BIENNAL / COMMONWEALTH GAMES by the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY and produced in association with DigiCult’s sister company EDGE CITY FILMS.

This comes four years after Ruth’s DigiCult film Paris/Sexy won Best British Short Film at LSFF 2011.

The 18th London Short Film Festival ran from 8th – 18th January 2015.

Congratulations to all the winners!

A multi-venue tour of award winning shorts from DigiCult, Scotland’s internationally renowned new talent film studio, working in partnership with Hopscotch Films.

Drama. Horror. Romance. Comedy. Join us to celebrate some of the brightest new voices in Scottish cinema.

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A selection of award winning shorts followed by Q&A with filmmaker. Drama. Horror. Romance. Comedy. Celebrate the brightest new voices of Scottish cinema.

Duration: 120 mins including Q & A

   

  

A selection of award winning shorts followed by Q&A with filmmaker. Drama. Horror. Romance. Comedy. Celebrate the brightest new voices of Scottish cinema.

Note: There is no Q & A for the Inverness screening.

Contact local venues for prices on all events.

   

  

Warning: One film contains strong, potentially offensive language

A selection of award winning shorts for younger audiences followed by an interactive, filmmaker-led workshop for teenagers.

Duration:  150 mins including workshop

Limited places, please book in advance.

Contact Kimberley Looi for more details: 0141 221 5290 kimberley@digicult.co.uk

   

  

Award winning slate of shorts from DigiCult and Hopscotch Films. Recognised by BAFTA and international festivals including EIFF, LSFF and Berlinale, the screening will be followed by Q&A with featured filmmakers.

Duration: 105 mins including Q & A

   

  

Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson’s Monkey Love Experiments has been nominated for a 2015 BAFTA in the Animated Films category. The film was developed and produced through Scottish Shorts, a Creative Scotland supported initiative from DigiCult and Hopscotch Films.

This follows its triumph in November, when it won Best Animation at BAFTA Scotland.

The EE British Academy Film Awards will be held on Sunday 8th February at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden. The event will be broadcasted by the BBC.

Congratualtions to Ainslie, Will, producer Cameron Fraser, and the rest of the crew involved!

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Huge congratulations to the crew of Monkey Love Experiments for their win at last night’s BAFTA Scotland awards! Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson’s film, about a monkey who believes he is destined for the moon, scooped the award for Best Animation.

Sadly Cara Connolly & Martin Clark’s Exchange and Mart was nominated for Best Short Film but lost to Ewan Stewart’s great piece Getting On, produced by the very talented Maeve McMahon.

A massive shout out to David Mackenzie, Gillian Berrie, Jonathan Asser and everyone at Sigma for Starred Up‘s multiple awards, winning Best Feature, Best Director for David and Best Writer for Jonathan.

Last but not least, congratulations to Lindy Cameron, Don Coutts and patron of DigiCult Margaret Matheson for Best Children’s Programme awarded to Katie Morag.

Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees on the night!