Award Winners 2026

Best Short Film

Mates dir. Rory Pearson

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Best Animation

Batmans Despair By The Jordan Brothers

Best Young Filmmaker

Legs dir. Ruben Barry Carmona

Best Documentary

My Father and Qadaffi

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Best T.V. Pilot or Episode Script

Gross Prophet by Kathryn Robinson

Best Cinematography

David Cawley The Man That I Wave At

Best West Midlands Actor

Polly Florence in Sound of Movement

Best Horror Short

The Man That I Wave At dir. Ben S Hyland

Best Music Video

AY - NO ONE

Best West Midlands Film

Soul Trader dir. Genevieve Lowe

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Best Feature Screenplay

From Saigon  by Kayla Hendy

Best Make Up or SFX

Emily Laye & Millissa Morris - Soul Trader

Best Director

Rory Pearson Mates

Best Comedy Film

The Graduate Scheme dir. Archie Macintosh

Best Emerging Filmmaker

The Hero dir. Oliver Woolridge

Best T.V. Pilot or Episode

Spar dir. Anthony Vander

Best Short Screenplay

No by Caroline Grebbell

Best Editing

David Yorke I Spy

Best Lead Actor

Marcus Aldred-Traynor in Mates

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