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Faith Elizabeth, Graham Humpreys, Stuart Morriss, Allan Bryce, Aaron Truss and Yannie Overton-Bryce
PLAY MISTY (MOON) FOR ME
I was very proud and pleased to be invited back to the cosy Cinema Museum in Kensington in mid-October to act as a judge at the prestigious Misty Moon International Film Festival organised by our great pals Jen and Stuart Morriss. The other judges were Cuckoo Waltz cutie Diane Keen, the everadorable Madeline Smith, The Omen’s agelessly attractive Dawn Perllman, Twins of Evil hottie Judy Matheson, The Sweeney’s Dean Harris, writer James Rowlins, filmmaker Emma Pitt, my great Gentlemen of Horror artist mate Graham Humphreys, producer Arthur Maddock and The Bill’s Ben Peyton.
After much chin-wagging at the bar, we sat down to watch 14 short films competing for 6 awards, and the standard was very high indeed. In the end our Judges’ Award went to The Wilds, a cracking 15-minute black comedy about werewolves directed by Greig Johnson. Responding to an urgent phone call from her estranged mother, Anna (Freya Parker) returns home to help deal with her troubled younger brother, who happens to be a werewolf. Nicola Bryant, looking very good, is Mum and Tom Bell is the brother, while Vincent Franklin is most amusing as the vicar who turns up to help with sort of exorcism duties. Brilliant stuff with excellent special effects. Might try to stick this on at DarkFest 5!
The Fenella Fielding OBE Award went to My Baby Cries from director Faith Elizabeth, a well-made and quite emotionally draining short on the subject of miscarriages. Yannie and Faith had a nice chat in the bar afterwards. “She’s so nice, and such a pretty girl,” said my lovely missus.
The Dudley Sutton Award went to director Joanne Mitchell, who is the wife of Dominic Brunt, himself no slouch as a filmmaker. Joanne has real talent and in fact she had two films in the contest, The Outing and Sybil. The former starred Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley from Corrie) and Con O’Neill (brilliant as Joe Meek in Telstar) alongside Emmerdale’s Elizabeth Rider and was an intriguing tale about oldsters on a day out, one of whom has a sad connection to one of the most notorious serial killers of our time.