Shakespeare Shorts 2024
Awards Show
Entrants to the 2024 Shakespeare Shorts competition responded to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s new multi-year theme, The Women Who Made Shakespeare, in their films inspired by Shakespeare.
We welcomed our brand new Patron Lolita Chakrabarti to join long standing supporter and Patron Sir Kenneth Branagh in selecting our overall winners of the competition.
Take a look at our talented winners below
Best film inspired by the theme ‘The Women Who Made Shakespeare’ (up to 10 mins)
Winner:
Two Emilia's Podcast, Charlie Mitchell, United States
Honourable Mention:
Out Damned Spot, Daniel Lane, United Kingdom
Best ‘Shakespeare Shorter Shorts’ (up to 3 mins)
Winner:
WDMC, Anthony Cally, United States
Honourable Mention:
For Both Are Infinite, Jack Berry, United Kingdom
Best Shakespeare-themed animation (up to 5 mins)
Cannot sleep!, Yingjie Zhou, Japan
Best Shakespeare film or animation by a young filmmaker aged 7-11 (up to 10 mins)
Elizabethan Theatre, Chrysoula Nikolopoulou and pupils, Greece
Best Shakespeare film or animation by a young filmmaker aged 12-17 (up to 10 mins)
Macbeth - Act 3 Scene 3, Bodhi Gilroy, United States
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We also want to share a huge congratulations to our selected shortlist:
A.I. made me do it: Ophelia, Gioula Papadopoulou, Greece
Amleto - Hamlet. A Grammar Test on the Use of the Verb "to Be", Vittorio Caratozzolo, Italy
DEATH BY . . ., Rosanna Verdon-Roe, United Kingdom
Don Pelayo, Marcelino Díaz Acebal, Spain
Flowers for the Resting, Adella Morton, United Kingdom
Hamlet, Georgia Andrews, United Kingdom
Jehanne: a thing impossible, Joshua Leese & Libby Symons, United Kingdom
Nicely Awful, Tobias Schlage, Japan
Ophelia's Lament, alkistis voulgari, Greece
Savonnette, Stéfan Philippot, France
Self Love, Montgomery Sutton, United States
She Bear, Darrie Gardner, United Kingdom
Sneeze, Tharun Kumar, India
Summer’s Twighlight, Megan Maher, United States
Twelfth Night, Ruth Carnegie, United Kingdom
