Fraya Thomsen

North - directed by Philip Sheerin

Best UK Film, Raindance 2015.

Winner Best Student Film, UK Film Festival 2015.

Winner Best Dramatic Short Galway Film Fleadh 2015.

Nominated for a Student Academy Award and 3 Royal Television Society awards.

Screened at Cork Film Festival, Rode Island International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Colchester Film Festival, Dinard British Film Festival and Camera Image.

Territory - Directed by Eleanor Mortimer

Awards:

Best Short Film at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival 2015,

The Camden Cartel Award Honorable Mention 2015.

Award Nominations:

Grierson Award - Best Short Documentary

Screened in competition at Cinema Du Reel 2015 in Paris.

Screenings:

dokufest

A warm and lyrical film following a group of unruly monkeys in Gibraltar and the people employed to control them.

Directed by Debanjan Nandy - 2015.

Awards:

Grand Award of the jury and Best Short Student Animation, Festival Internacional de Animación - FIA

Sakura’s prize, Poitiers Film Festival 2015 

First Runner Up, Chitrakatha International Student Animation Festival 2015.

First Silver, DigiCon6 ASIA

Screenings:

Anima Mundi International Animation Festival

Festival Caminhos Cinema Português

Anchorage International Film Festival

Zinebi Film Festival

St. Louis International Film Festival

ReAnimania Int. Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan

Biaf Ani

Corfu Animation Festival

International Animation Festival, Anima Syros

LA Shorts Fest

Festival of Animated Films Varna

Edinburgh International Film Festival (McLaren Award),     

An old man trapped in a mundane senior center living by the memory of his beloved wife as his own shadow. But as his past sets in threatening his present, Prakash finds himself before a difficult decision: a mesmerizing but, unreal dream or life itself?

This advert is designed to encourage customers to invest in an Omniplex Cinema gift card. The brief from production company Really Bold was to compose music which supported the meaning in the narration but did not detract from it, bringing with it optimism, opportunity and excitement. 

Stay the Same, directed by Sam Firth is a meditation on time, mortality and our desire to capture and record experience.

Funded with development funds from the UK Film Council/BFI and Creative Scotland with support from the Scottish Documentary Institute.

Winner Best Composer Underwire Film Festival 2013

Special Mention for the 'sublime score' Glasgow Short Film Festival 2014

Winner Wand 5 Honorary Prize for Concept and Design Stuttgart WinterFilm Festival 2014

Special Mention Swedenborg Film Festival 2013

Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2014

Alchemy Film Festival 2014

Bradford International Film Festival, UK 2014

European Media Art Festival Ossnabruck 2014 

11th London Short Film Festival, UK 2014

27th Fimwinter Festival of Expanded Media Stuttgart, Germany 2014

Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK 2014

19th Encounters Film Festival, UK 2013
BFI London Film Festival, UK 2013
Inverness Film Festival, UK 2013
Cucalorus Film Festival, USA 2013
Underwire Film Festival, UK 2013

The Swedenborg International Short Film Festival, UK 2013

Short film for C4 Random Acts, a collaboration between artist film-maker Lucy Cash and choreographer Florence Peake, synthesising elements from nine decades of popular dance. Featuring dance artist Daliah Touré.

We can’t fly like birds, nor can we stop our gaze soaring skyward to dream of it.

https://aeon.co/videos/we-can-t-fly-like-birds-nor-can-we-stop-our-gaze-soaring-skyward-to-dream-of-it

In this brief, whimsical documentary, the UK director Eleanor Mortimer turns her camera’s gaze on urban birdwatchers as they wait for, observe and marvel at the peregrine falcons hovering above Sheffield in the north of England. The result is a beguiling look at a uniquely human condition: envy of flying. Or maybe it’s something else that turns these city-dwellers’ eyes skywards. The pleasures of birdwatching are many; the words to describe them are perhaps best left to the poets among us.

Mist, Rain, Storm

Lewis Normand is a friend who goes back a very long way to the days when we both began composing and dancing, back in the 90s. Lewis invited me to compose the music for his first two week long residency at Dance Base in Edinburgh. Along with dancers Hannah Kidd, Ellie Bishop and Joel Wilson, we devised a three act piece inspired by mist, rain and storm. A fitting stimulus for a Scottish choreographer and composer team. We anticipate the piece will be performed live in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the summer of 2016. The score was created on my computer with many interesting audio manipulation techniques as well as harp, piano, cello and more, so the music will not be a live element on this occasion.  

Directed by Sakari Suuronen, Career Plans has won both the student category and the Jouko Nummela award for best documentary at The Blue Sea Film Festival 2014. 

It has been screened at the Helsinki Short Film Festival and the Tampere Film Festival 2015 National Competition.

Directed by Ani Laurie 2015.

Screenings:

Raindance Film Festival 2015

Montreal Film Festival 2015

A violent attack at school, leaves fourteen-year-old Sky unable to speak. Her teenage older sister Jessica-May swears she'll protect them. The sisters escape their inner city world for the country Moors. In this secluded new world, their horrific secrets unravel.

www.theearthbelongstonoone.com

Directed by Daniel Montanarini - 2015.

Seahorse is the story of a first love, an unrequited love and a pregnant boy - Alex.

Screenings:

Austin Film Festival

Directed by Sakari Suuronen - 2015.

Documentary / comedy.

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Directed by Sam Firth -2010

A personal documentary about the mysterious and wonderful nature of illness and recovery.
Funded by BBC Scotland, Creative Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Documentary Institute.  

Selected by Sight & Sound magazine in their highlights of the London Short Film Festival.  "Never brooding or morose, The Worm Inside is a compelling insight into thetrauma that many of us go through when faced with unwelcome news."  Sight & Sound Magazine 2011

Encounters Film Festival 2010
London Short Film Festival 2011
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2011
GoNorth 2011
Inverness Film Festival 2011
Branchage Film Festival 2011
Festival du Film Brittanique de Dinard 2012

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Directed by Grace Cooke 2015.

Banaroo is a story about two lonely people coming together by the
magic of Christmas.

Screenings:

Encounters Film Festival

Aniya Eyros

Game directed by Jonathan Hatton - 2015.

A surreal photography game about loss, what we leave behind and how we move on. It follows a woman who uses her ability to photograph people’s memories in an attempt to help the sick, dying and memory impaired. ‘Hindsight’ is an attempt to portray a narrative and evoke emotions through the interactions and mechanics themselves.

An experimental two-screen experience, split between a phone/tablet and main PC screen. Players interact with people and the real world via the touch device, before moving up to the memory world of the main screen, using their touch device to photograph and repair broken memories.