Bacup
Film Festival 2007
was held at the Millennium Theatre
on the 26th and 27th October 2007
Although in its pilot year, the festival was a great success,
with MP for
Rossendale and Darwen, and former Film Minister Janet Anderson giving
the festival very high acclaim.
The diversity in films that were screened at the Bacup Film Festival 2007
illustrated the festival’s aim to bring such a vast range of talent,
from
all ages and abilities, to the public eye.
The Prize Winners of the Bacup
Film Festival 2007 were:
Grand Prize:
Salsa
Guy: Directed by Gus Alvarez
Best Fiction:
Waste: Directed by Richard Wilson
Best Documentary:
New Tricks: Directed by Simon Clayton
Best Animation:
What If?: Directed by Mat Parker
Young Film Maker Award:
Wayward Escape:
Directed by John Laws
Sophie Award for Innovation in Film Making:
A Self Critical Sinner’s Murder: Directed by Mercy Liao
John Laws receives the Young Film Maker Award for ‘Wayward Escape’
Mat Parker receives the Best Animation Award for ‘What If?’
‘New
Tricks’ Producer Elizabeth Waite
accepts
Best Documentary Prize from Erik Knudsen,
Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford
North
West Academy of Arts director
Chris
Lever-Green accepts the Best Fiction award
on behalf of Film Director Richard Wilson for ‘Waste’
Bacup Film Festival director Steven Hutchinson
with former Minister of Film, Janet Anderson MP
Steven
Hutchinson awards Gus Alvarez
with
the Grand Prize for ‘Salsa Guy’