WOFFF20 Winners
The sixth annual Women Over 50 Film Festival took place online from 26 to 30 September 2020. What an amazing festival it was. The move online meant that so many of you, from so many countries around the world joined the WOFFF community this year. We’re so glad you came.
We screened 58 short films, from 37 countries and the audience visited us from here in Britain, as well as from 56 other countries including Japan, Sweden, Barbados and Pakistan.
On this website and through social media we reached over 4 million people worldwide during the festival.
At the virtual awards ceremony prizes were announced for the Shedunnit Best Short Script, the London Film School Best Student Film, Best Animation, Best Experimental, Best Documentary, Best Drama, and the Emerald Life Audience Choice Award.
The WOFFF 2020 winners were:
WOFFF SHEDUNNIT BEST SHORT SCRIPT 2020 – 3 Down by Denise Deegan
WOFFF LONDON FILM SCHOOL BEST STUDENT FILM 2020 – Delta by Jules St-Jean
WOFFF BEST ANIMATION 2020 – The Witch & the Baby by Evgenia Golubeva
WOFFF BEST EXPERIMENTAL 2020 – Haud Close Tae Me by Eve McConnachie
WOFFF BEST DOCUMENTARY 2020 – The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen by Jennifer Abod
WOFFF BEST DRAMA 2020 – Wine Lake by Platon Theodoris
WOFFF EMERALD LIFE AUDIENCE CHOICE 2020 – Wings by Jamie Weston.
Festival director, Nuala O’Sullivan, said, “I believe that older women must be seen and heard, regardless of their age – even because of it. WOFFF moving online actually has allowed many more people to see these fantastic films with older women on both sides of the camera at their core. The reaction from people around the world – filmmakers and film-watchers has been really positive and encouraging. Roll on 2021!”
Full list of WOFFF 2020 prize winners
WOFFF SHEDUNNIT 2020 BEST SHORT SCRIPT
Winner: 3 Down by Denise Deegan
Runner Up: Self Raising by Kathryn Webb
3rd Place: The Pants Job by Catherine Aitken
Commended: Forbidden Disco by Samia Rida
Commended: Wool by Dympna Jardine
WOFFF LONDON FILM SCHOOL 2020 BEST STUDENT FILM
Winner: Delta by Jules St-Jean
Runner Up: I am a Fellrunner by Jessie Leong & Julie Carter
3rd Place: Senescence by Phoebe Morrison
Commended: Don’t Shoot the Messenger by Bianca Malcolm
WOFFF 2020 BEST ANIMATION
Winner: The Witch & the Baby by Evgenia Golubeva
Runner Up: The Last Egg by Sue Bridge
3rd Place: Eyeless in Parkway by Lou Sumray
WOFFF 2020 BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Winner: Haud Close Tae Me by Eve McConnachie
Runner Up: Dancing is an Old Friend by Marta Renzi
Runner up: SWING by Natacha Horn
3rd Place: Clémentine by Chantal Caron
Commended: I’ve Been Afraid by Cecelia Condit
Commended: Porcelain by Roswitha Chesher
Special mention: Swivel by Lois Norman
WOFFF 2020 BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen by Jennifer Abod
Runner Up: Becky by Nicola Cross
3rd Place: My Mama, A Man by Helena Middleton
Commended: Ballet After Dark by Barbara K.Asare-Bediako
Commended: CHAMP 5 by Paul Gatto, David Jester & Kathleen Strouse
Commended: Married People by Tyro Heath
Commended: Older Than What? by Steen Starr
WOFFF 2020 BEST DRAMA
Winner: Wine Lake by Platon Theodoris
Runner Up: Saving Grace by Siobhán Kavanagh
3rd Place: Wings by Jamie Weston
Commended: Duck Daze by Alison Piper
Commended: Happy Motherhood by Sylvie Gravagna & Loïc Maldonado
Commended: Lady what does by Sara Jordan
WOFFF EMERALD LIFE 2020 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Winner: Wings by Jamie Weston
Runner Up: The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen by Jennifer Abod
3rd Place: Ballet After Dark by Barbara K.Asare-Bediako
Commended: I am a Fellrunner by Jessie Leong & Julie Carter
Commended: Stray by Sinead O’Loughlin
Commended: The Woman Who Planted Trees by Elspeth Parsons
Commended: The Honeys and Bears by Veena Rao
Thanks
We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped make WOFFF20 online run so smoothly. Thank you Abbie Stanton, Becky Brand, Becky Griffiths, Ben Lewis, Carmen Slijpen, Charlotte Ginsborg, David Simpson, Felicity Beckett, Francesca Sobande, Funke Oyebanjo, Gabriella Apicella, Heidi McCormack, Helen Jacey, Helen Selka, Henrietta Gill, Hilary O’Neill, Imke Elstner, Jane Ray, Jen Hall, Jenny Eiken Mo, Kavita Puri, Linda McCarthy, Liza Fletcher, Laura Hodgson, Laura Rothwell, Louise Wadley, Maja Spanu, Natalia Garay, Nicholas Smith, Olivia Simpson, Priscilla Igwe, Rachel Hayward, Richard Clark, Sharon Averill, Shaz Begum, Steve Wardlaw, Sue Austen, Thomasina Gibson, Trisha McCrae, Vera Hems and Wilna Fourie. You were brilliant!
Sponsors and supporters
We’d like to thank those who have made this year’s festival such a great success. They include: Depot, Emerald Life, Mother’s Ruin, National Lottery Awards for All, Norton Rose Fulbright, The Whickers, London Film School, Shedunnit Productions and Michael Wiese Productions
You can learn more about our sponsors by visiting our Supporters page.
