Watersprite 2024

WINNERS

On Saturday 2nd March we held the Watersprite Awards with Amazon MGM Studios where our 19 winners of the evening were announced.

Each winner received unique prizes thanks to our wonderful prize partners.

  • CLOUDY

    While avoiding a conversation with his mum, Elliot encounters a peculiar little creature in need of his assistance!

    Sound Design Winner: Lee Zhaoheng Ryan

    Country: Singapore

  • COMMON GROUND

    When Dylan returns from university to his rural childhood home he faces a decision between his duty to the land and his desire for freedom.

    Screenplay Winner: Solomon Smith

    Country: UK

  • DADDY

    A young woman rents a dad for one evening.

    Casarotto Ramsay Directing Winner: Ella Knorz

    Country: Germany

  • HOMEMAKER

    Renee loses herself in a controlling relationship and the abuse she suffers gets worse until she is utterly trapped.

    Wychwood Media Social Impact Winner: Ciara Kerr

    Country: UK

  • LULLABY FOR THE LOST

    A sleeping man’s fading memory of his late Mother unravels through a recurring, hypermnesic dream that reverberates and transforms throughout his life, tracing from his final dream back to his first.

    Union VFX Experimental Winner: Tom Potter

    Country: UK

  • NEAR LIGHT

    A young man, convicted murderer, has a chance of redemption when he enters the best Italian university of economics, going back and forth from prison to university every day.

    Documentary Winner: Niccolò Salvato

    Country: Italy & UK

  • NØKKELBARN

    Young Erik is forced to make a family-fracturing decision.

    Script Compass Development Prize Winner

    Country: Norway

  • ON PURPOSE (META)

    Early spring in a lonely village. An 8-year-old girl Mėta struggles to find help for her injured dog. Mėta’s journey raises questions about guilt and collective responsibilities of the community.

    United Agents Performance Winner: Elena Vasiliauskaitė

    Country: Lithuania

  • REMEMBER?

    An old divorced couple with Alzheimer’s see each other for the first time in 10 years.

    Costume Design Winner: Florence Earnshaw

    Country: UK

  • SONG OF THE TADPOLE

    The heart-warming life story of a girl and her pet tadpole.

    Original Film Music Winner: Louis Marlowe

    Country: UK

  • THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Il compleanno di Enrico)

    A discovery of horror.

    Salon Editing Winner: Francesco Sossai

    Production Design Winner: Paula Meuthen

    Cinematography Winner: Giulia Schelhas

    Country: Germany & France & Italy

  • THE STEAK

    A birthday ceremony preparation gets upside down as something horrible takes place.

    Seven.One Fiction Winner: Kiarash Dadgar

    Kingdom Creative Audience Award Winner

    Neil Gaiman Film of the Year Winner

    Country: Iran

  • TO THE MOON AND BACK (月見ごこち)

    A story about birth and death.

    Animation Winner: Shuqin Li

    Country: Japan & China

To get in touch with any of our nominees please email producer@watersprite.org.uk