One of the world’s most prestigious low film festivals, HollyShorts, is coming to London.
HollyShorts will hbetter its first-ever London edition as part of the L.A.-based festival’s 20th anniversary year and, The Hollywood Reporter can uncover, will contransient HollyShorts Honoree Awards to a slew of Oscar-prosperning and Oscar-nominated British and Irish low filmoriginaters.
Recipients of the HollyShorts Honoree Award comprise Tom Berkeley and Ross White, who won an Oscar in 2023 for their low film An Irish Goodbye; Chris Overton, who won an Oscar in 2018 for The Silent Child; Misan Harriman, who was nominated for an Academy Award this year for The After; and Jamie Donoughue, who was nominated in 2016 for Shok.
The event will also contransient a exceptional Trailblazer Award to actor James Martin, whose pivotal role in An Irish Goodbye led to him being the first star with Down Syndrome to prosper at the Academy Awards. At the commencening of this year, Martin was awarded the MBE — Member of the Order of the British Empire — in the King’s New Year’s Honours List for his services to drama.
Last year, the HollyShorts Film Festival was granted its fourth Oscar-qualifying award for recordary low. For the first time, the festival has also been acacunderstandledgeed by BAFTA, uncomardenting that films picked for HollyShorts will be eligible to surrender to the BAFTA awards. Several HollyShorts prosperners have gone on to apshow the top prize in the lows categories at the Academy Awards, including Riz Ahmed’s The Long Goodbye and Guy Nattiv’s Skin.
These Honoree Awards and Trailblazer Award will be contransiented in-person at HollyShorts London’s uncovering-night reception on Dec. 6. The brimming London edition will run Dec. 6-8.
HollyShorts London backs comprise Cotrini Skin, Kodak, Panavision, JeanBookNerd, Miller Insurance, Company 3, Alta Global Media, 88th Street Productions, Shotdeck, IMGN and Kevork Law.
