Virgin Media Celebrates Short Film Making With Virgin Media Shorts 2013 Awards Ceremony Tonight – We Attend Red Carpet Event!

We’re delighted to publicise that Virgin Media will announce the winner of the sixth Virgin Media Shorts competition at a prestigious red carpet awards ceremony tonight and I will be covering this event on behalf of theappwhisperer.com.

The annual event, this year held at the iconic BFI IMAX cinema in London’s Waterloo, is billed as the biggest short film competition in the UK with the aim to find and mentor the next big thing in British filmmaking.

The short list includes 13 films, the last of which was picked based on ‘Twitter buzz,’ and all are available to view online via the Virgin Media Shorts website, along with dozens of entries that sadly didn’t make the final cut.

Virgin Media notes the awards have a good track record creating real careers in film: “Our winners don’t just get their work seen by millions of movie lovers, they turn industry heads too. Our 2009 Grand Prize winner Luke Snellin with Mixtape was nominated for a BAFTA, is now a regular on the film festival scene and is set to direct his feature debut, The Wanderers later this year.”

Virgin Media adds: “Meanwhile, Oscar Sharp, who clinched a BIFA nomination for his 2010 winning film Sign Language is working on a new film starring Olivia Colman and Sean Dooley. 2011 winner Jason Wingard, director of the sc-fi thriller 2:20, is, with his BFI backing, in pre-production on his latest short.”

“Finally, last year’s winner, Jennifer Sheridan, has almost completed her follow-up to the adorable Rocket and recently submitted a script to the BFI. So, winning Virgin Media Shorts is certainly somewhat of a life-changer!”

From what we’ve seen so far of the 2013 entries it’s an impressive and varied bunch, covering several genres from drama to comedy and romance with flair. It’s also great to see that documentary film making hasn’t been neglected, with an insightful, amusing short about the smallest shops on the high street.

Virgin Media will announce not one but three awards tonight including those sponsored by Nikon and TiVo.