FWOAN at BRIFF 2019...

This past weekend saw the Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2019 take place, and myself and producer Ali and director Lucy hopped over to the sunny seaside city of Brighton to attend the festival's second day of festivities and represent For Want of a Nail.

Ali, me, and Lucy

We were able to be there in person to pick up our award for Best Drama, as well as a surprise award for Best Editing, and were also able to have a bit of a chin wag with some of the other filmmakers...

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FWOAN Wins at Brighton Rocks IFF...

Good news! "For Want of a Nail" has won Best Drama at the Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2019! There will also be a screening in mid-July at the Rialto - details to be determined.

You can see the full list of finalists and winners at the festival's website HERE.

Brighton Rocks Selects FWOAN...

"For Want Of A Nail" has been officially selected by the Brighton Rocks Film Festival as a finalist and has been entered into competition for the category of 'Best Drama'.

See the full list of finalists by visiting their website HERE.

FWOAN at Top Indie Film Awards...

For Want of a Nail has done rather well at the Top Indie Film Awards for October 2018.

In addition to a win for Best Director, FWOAN also received seven nominations including Best Short, Best Original Idea, and Best Writing!

Check out their website HERE for the full list of nominations and wins in all categories.

Our other nominations came in the Cinematography, Editing, Music, and Sound categories.

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FWOAN Moves into Annual Nominations...

"For Want of a Nail" won Best Short Drama at the Changing Face International Film Festival back in September for the monthly event, and now we have progressed into the nominations for the annual event!

The full nomination list is:

BEST SHORT DRAMA | ANNUAL NOMINATIONS 2018
Are your Volleyball?! | Mohammad Bakhshi (IRAN)
Avery Road | Dustin Curtis Murphy (USA)
Casting of an Innocent Women | Jacob Thomas Pilgaard (DENMARK)
Excursion to the Mountains | Dermot Daly and Ivan Mack (UK)
For Want Of A Nail | Lucy Joan Barnes (UK)
GAB | (La Vie Parigo) Gazanfer Biricik (FRANCE)
I'm Sorry (Fyrirgefðu - útskriftarmynd Ingunnar Míu) | Lovisa Lara (ICELAND)
Mother's Day | GP2 Entertainment - Peter Koevari & Greg Powell (AUSTRALIA)
Tag, You're It Film | Corey Donaldson(AUSTRALIA)
The Morning After | Leanne Mangan (AUSTRALIA)
The Nixie (Świtezianka) | Julia Bui Ngoc (POLAND)
This is Home | Jason P. Schumacher GreyDuck Productions (USA)
Torment | Luciana Caplan (USA)

We've also been nominated in the Editing and Set Design categories:

BEST EDITING | ANNUAL NOMINATIONS 2018
Bryngeir Wattnes (I'm Sorry Fyrirgefðu - útskriftarmynd Ingunnar Míu | Iceland)
Gregg Houston (Somewhere in their Heads Curse Of Lono | UK)
Harry Assouline (New York 2150 | USA)
Nick Sutton (Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord | UK)
Paul Anthony Nelson (After Nightfall | Australia)
Ryan Tyan (For Want Of A Nail | UK)

BEST SET DESIGN | ANNUAL NOMINATIONS 2018
Kate Ingram (Wheels of Fortune | Australia)
Nicole Zimmer (Okay | Canada)
Olivia Venables (For Want Of A Nail | UK)
Tony Gary (Dandelion | USA)

FWOAN Wins at Mindfield...

Some more great news from the festival circuit - For Want Of A Nail has received a Platinum Award for Best Short Film at the Mindfield Film Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

There are five categories of award for Best Short - Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

Find the full list of winners HERE.

FWOAN Wins at DMOFF...

Groovy news from the Direct Monthly Online Film Festival - I won the award for Best Screenwriter!

You can check out the full list of winners HERE.

FWOAN Awarded...

The Berlin Flash Film Festival has awarded "For Want Of A Nail" for Outstanding Achievement.

"You, as filmmakers, demonstrated incredible potential. We felt it only suitable to award you Outstanding Achievement."

In other related news, we also got a Special Mention from the English Riviera Film Festival.

FWOAN's first award...

For Want Of A Nail has picked up its first award - Editor of the Month - from The Monthly Film Festival (April 2018). Congratulations to our editor Ryan Tian, and hopefully this will be the first of many awards!

FWOAN was also nominated for Film of the Month, Original Score of the Month (Alex Williamson), and Cinematogragher of the Month (Yana Ritz-Cairns).

You can see the results and nominations HERE. Our film's page on TMFF is here.

"Sleb" is into the quarter finals!

Good news on this Sunday morning - the screenplay version of "Sleb" has reached the Quarter Finals of the Screenwriting Goldmine Awards Competition 2014! Click HERE to see the list of Quarter Finalists.

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"Gaia" film award - news gets about...

I see the local Bulmer Foundation have put up a little article on their website about the film award that Joe and I won from this year's Campfire Film Festival in Australia. The news was also spread around in various local newspapers, and it's nice to bump into people who you've not seen in years, who spotted the article in their local paper of choice, and offer their thumbs up.

"Gaia: Greek Goddess of Earth" wins award!

"Gaia: Greek Goddess of Earth" - an alternate version of one of the films found in the "Gaia & Genesis" Environmental Ethics DVD - has won an Australasian Best Environmental Film Award. From a field of 85 entrants, our film (Joe Jenkins of Ethics Online wrote the script and directed, while I was in charge of the camera work and editing) was chosen as the winner by the Australian Film Critics Association.

It screened last night (May 12th 2012) at the Campfire Film Festival in Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. The film is also in general competition at the festival, and is one of the finalists.

Many thanks to Campfire for this award!