Audience Favourite

With a massive thank you to everyone who voted for the final category, we are pleased to announce the winner...

Evade the Spade - The Girl and the Fridge

Shortlisted
Lost Socks - Twine (a Visual Poem)

W.Y.D - Crossroads

Best Response to Brief

Lights, Camera, Action - They Are Watching You

Shortlisted
Evade The Spade - The Girl and The Fridge

A Group of People - The Phantom Pan

Best Screenplay

Lights, Camera, Action - They Are Watching You

Evade The Spade - The Girl and The Fridge

Lost Socks - Twine

Best Soundtrack

Better Late Than Never - Panic

Shortlisted
Lights, Camera, Action - They Are Watching You

Tick, Tick...Boom - Take it to the Grave

Best Editing

Tick, Tick...Boom - Take it to the Grave

Shortlisted
Lights, Camera, Action - They Are Watching You

Better Late Than Never - Panic

Best Cinematogrophy

Lost Socks - Twine

Shortlisted
Tick Tick Boom - Take it to the Grave

Evade The Spade - The Girl and The Fridge

Best Direction

Lights, Camera, Action - They Are Watching You

Shortlisted
The Kitchen Cowboys - A Day For Losing Things

Better Late Than Never - Panic

Best Performance

Feranmi Majekodumni for Tick, Tick...Boom - Take it to the Grave

Shortlisted
Ethan Laffey for Better Late Than Never – Panic

Niamh Boyle for Facu’s Angles – Locked In

Samuel Wilmot for The Kitchen Cowboys – A Day for Losing Things

Best Film

Ali Plumb

Ali Plumb is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and one of the most-heard movie critics in the UK. A five-year Empire Magazine veteran and former Digital Spy Movies Editor, Ali is now BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra's in-house Film Critic, appearing weekly on Greg James' Breakfast Show and Jordan North & Vick Hope's Drivetime show.

His iPlayer interview series 'Movies With Ali Plumb' sees him speaking to A-listers such as Jennifer Lawrence, Steven Spielberg, Emma Stone and Tom Cruise, with numbers on YouTube hitting as high as the nine-million mark. He's hosted press conferences for blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Guardians Of The Galaxy, as well as Q&As and fan events with the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and John Boyega.

Ben Worsfield

Ben is an award-winning Producer with extensive experience developing and producing TV and radio for the UK and International markets. Most recently, Ben produced The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk series 2 for BBC Two, written by and starring Multiple Bafta and Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Spencer Jones. Prior to that, Ben was Senior Development Producer at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture. He was a Broadcast Hotshot 2016 and has worked at Comedy Central, Paramount Drama, King Bert Productions, NBCUniversal and Carnival Films, developing and producing shows including The Trial of Joan Collins (Sky), Quacks by BAFTA-winning James Wood (BBC Two) starring Mat Baynton, Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard, Tom Basden and Rupert Everett, and three series of award-winning Love in Recovery by Pete Jackson for BBC Radio 4, starring Rebecca Front, John Hannah, Sue Johnston, Paul Kaye, Eddie Marsan and Johnny Vegas. He still has one of his Warwick Shootout film competition awards on the mantelpiece at home.

Hayley Pepler

Hayley Pepler is a Writer, Director, Producer and Live broadcasting specialist who is responsible for all filmed content, live streaming, and broadcast activity for Coventry City of Culture Trust.

Hayley moved to the Trust last summer from the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she spent eight years at the centre of the theatre company’s live broadcasting project, bringing onstage productions to both cinema audiences through live satellite broadcast and to school children across the country through the RSC’s Schools live streaming programme.

Originally a journalist and then a TV researcher, Hayley spent the early part of her career delivering programmes and series for the BBC and Channel 4 and for independent production companies in Cardiff, London, and Birmingham. She studied Screenwriting at the New York Film Academy and on her return to the UK she worked in TV development for the then Midlands based Maverick Television, winning a BBC commission for the company with her first proposal for the channel. She was later commissioned by Maverick to write a non-fiction book to accompany the TV series ‘Ten Years Younger’ which was published by Channel Four books and Transworld Publishing.

Hayley has been nominated for two Royal Television Society Awards: as Writer and Producer of the drama ‘The Shadow of Ingestre Hall’ and as Director and Producer of the documentary ‘Inside the Wig Room’ which looked behind the scenes at the RSC’s Wigs and Makeup department.

Hayley believes a successful creative career is about being open to opportunity, retaining high production values in everything you do and above all, having a sense of humour. She channelled this funny bone when she wrote her full-length play ‘In the Motherhood’ which enjoyed a sold out run at Birmingham REP before going on a national tour in 2017.

Hayley is an Associate Member of DirectorsUK and sits on their Access and Inclusion Board, is a member of Women in Film & TV and was selected as part of the inaugural Creative England ‘Industry Equals’ programme to support female entrepreneurs in the screen industries.

Chih-Hsiang Lo

Chih-Hsiang is the societies officer at the Warwick SU and is serving as one of the student members on the judging panel.

Previous filmmaking experience involves a school film making project in year 9 (which went horribly), failing terribly to dub an episode of anime into English during an Anime and Manga society event, and asking Makoto Shinkai, an esteemed anime director, a question in person about his cat drawing abilities.

Whilst his impressive CV slightly pales in comparison to his fellow judges, he still looks forward to watching all the entries that gets submitted and getting involved in his first Take 24 film competition.