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Geoffrey Round Audio-Visual Competition Results 2001

Best Amateur Movie of the Year:
Argentinian Association of Actors
directed by Sebastian Alfie
won The Daily Mail Challenge Trophy gold cup, £250 Jessops voucher, an IAC International Medallion, the Best Overseas Entry trophy, the Creative Use of Sound award and a selection of Trackline CDs.

Its lead actor, Jean Pierre Reguerraz won the Le Hedan Trophy for acting.

Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Best British Amateur Movie:
Greenhouse by Tim Jones
won an IAC International Medallion, the Best British trophy, the Mini Cinema Cup for Animation and 10 CDs from Focus.

Tim won a Silver Seal for another entry: Garden Life.

still from 'Greenhouse'
Best British Open:
Blurred Boundaries by Eileen Chan, Tamsin Davis, Stephen Grindle
They won the Alan Cartwright Cup and an International Medallion.

(sorry no still available yet)

Best Open:
Schäfchen Zählen
(Counting Sheep)  by Sven Taddicken
Last year's Daily Mail Trophy winner now entering as a film student. Best Open trophy.
still from 'Counting Sheep'

Other International Medallions (i.e. movies of world class)

  • An Irish Moment by Willy VanDer Linden
  • Bali - The Last Paradise by Hans-Dieter Kaemmerer
  • Dimato by Urbain Appletans which also won a Special Award for Outstanding Cinematic Achievement.
  • Designer Babies by Iain Gaffney (which also won 10 CDS from Carlin)
  • Mijn Eerste Sjeekspier (My First Shakespeare) by Douglas Boswell
  • The Suspicion by Vladimir Murtin, Emile de Gruÿter, André van der Hout and Aria Mulder (which also won Best Story, A Special Award for Direction, The Wallace Heaton cup for photography and £100 from Fuji)

Other Special Awards

  • Amy Ramsden won the Best Young Actress award for her part in Vixen by Channel 7 Productions.
  • Jon Millington won the Special Acting Award (Youth) for his part in Rash Human by Airstrip One Productions.
  • The Biggest Yet by Huddersfield Video & Cine Club won the Horace Rowe Trophy for Best Documentary
  • A Day at the Park by Daniel Greenway won Best Use of Sound (Youth) Award.
  • Escape from Freedom by Class Films won the Best IAC Club Entry
  • Grace Dieu Manor School by Ratcliffe College Film Club won the Best Junior Entry award and 10 CDs from Sonoton.
  • Resta by Mark Jackson won the Best Youth Entry award plus a tripod screen from The Widescreen Centre.
  • Schachmatt (Checkmate) by Karlheinz Manthey won the Best Short Movie award.
  • Stalker's Song by Mark Jackson won the Best Sound Track (Youth)
  • Zu Gast in Einer Ewigkeit (A Guest in Eternity) by Rose Doschke won a Special Award for Computer Video

The Geoffrey Round Audio-Visual Competition

  1. Idwal Bach by Ron Davies
  2. Awakening of the Rainbow Serpent by Eddie Spence
  3. The Lost Years by Keith Leedham

Highly Commended:

  • The Tale of Koong Shee and the Servant Chang by Feoff Holmes
  • Man of Simple Taste by Mike Hardcastle
  • A Snapper in Tokyo by Malcolm Imhoff

Commended

  • And Not A Drop To Drink by Mary and Denis Sykes
  • Might Have Been by Colin Balls and Peter Coles
  • Shakespeare's Flowers by Beryl Davies

Page updated on 21 March 2008

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