novella film festival
Saturday 9th December 2023
NOVELLA FILM FESTIVAL
2023
Thank you to everyone for attending the second year of Novella!
We had the most wonderful day at Ealing Project for Novella Film Festival 2023, and are so proud to have been able to screen our programme of 30 incredible films, and meet so many of the talented people behind them. Thank you to everyone who came along and brought our event to life, we couldn’t be happier.
And of course, a massive congratulations to our ten fantastic winners! Thank you for choosing to share your films and stories with us – we’re very proud to have been able to screen these films.
OUR WINNERS
FICTION:
MATAR dir. Hassan Akkad
DOCUMENTARY:
Picturing Wonderland dir. Alfie Elms
ANIMATION:
Rice Ball dir. Kristina Pringle
MUSIC VIDEO:
what we leave behind dir. Lars Walther
EXPERIMENTAL:
The Commute dir. Katie Loughrin
POC NARRATIVE:
UNCLE dir. Michelle Jones
LGBTQIA+ NARRATIVE:
Making Up dir. Ryan Paige
DISABILITY NARRATIVE:
Passion, Purpose & Parkinson’s dir. Olz McCoy
FEMALE NARRATIVE:
MÅNGATA dir. Maja Costa
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVE:
(PLASTIK) dir. Philip Rom
We’re over the moon to have hosted this year’s festival at Ealing Project!
The Novella Film Festival live event took place at Ealing Project on 9th December 2023 and it was an absolutely fantastic day full of all things film. We can’t thank Ealing Project enough for their support, the space was so perfect for our festival and it was an absolute joy to work with them.
The first cinema in Ealing in over 14 years, Ealing Project is a fantastic community-centred space that completely aligns with our goals and ethos at Novella – that is to inspire people, and to give voice to creatives. Find out more about Ealing Project here.
categories & prizes
A film can only be submitted to one category from each column.
Along with the cash prize, winners will also get the chance to choose from a list of in-kind prizes including free studio hire and software subscriptions.
form categories
FICTION
- £2,000 cash prize
DOCUMENTARY
- £1,500 cash prize
ANIMATION
- £1,500 cash prize
MUSIC VIDEO
- £1,000 cash prize
EXPERIMENTAL
- £1,000 cash prize
perspective categories
POC NARRATIVE
- £1,000 cash prize
LGBTQIA+ NARRATIVE
- £1,000 cash prize
DISABILITY NARRATIVE
- £1,000 cash prize
FEMALE NARRATIVE
- £1,000 cash prize
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVE
- £1,000 cash prize
