GFF2026 AWARDS
The winners were announced at the Awards Party on the 24th Oct 2026 at Greenwich University.
The Grand Prizes
THE AWARDS WILL BE GIVEN OUT on 24th OCT 2026
BEST FILM
i have a
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Spare Part
The Intimacy Coordinator
Small Hours
Honourable mentions
Announced during awards event.
Mental Health Awareness Award
conscious
The Wall
Glass
Picture of Calvin
Small Hours
Fractured Frame
BETWEEN THE SCREENS
Environmental Impact Awareness Award
You Told Us To Talk About the Weather
From the Dunes
The Golden Squacco Heron
The Bottom Line
AWARD NOMINATIONS
BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
Meat Raffle
You Told Us To Talk About the Weather
SIGNAL
FLOCK
i have a
The Intimacy Coordinator
BEST International Short Film
Voyager
The Country Gentlewoman: Christmas Edition
Steal My Life
A Grieving Heart
ElleX / ElleY
Best London Film
All Change
The Hold
Esme's Life Sucks
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
i have a
Glass
Emerging Filmmaker Award
Dominic Davies - King of the Sandcastle
Jess Curtis - Blown It
Owen Alexander Hicks, Sam Jack Barrowcliffe - Eating Ice
Leila Murton Poole - An Eye For An Eye Chart
Persephone Wood - Rot Girl Summer
Freddie Green - Atlas
Emerging ACTOR Award
Jack Rowan - SIGNAL
Leo Simpe-Asante - King of the Sandcastle
Amari James - Cut Short
Gabriella Leonardi - The Mirror That Consumes You
Madeleine Spooner - Mayflies
Louisa Connolly-Burnham - The Intimacy Coordinator
Emerging Writer Award
Caz Thorne - Mercury and Jupiter
Megan Teo - The Fruits they Burnt that Summer
Gabriella Leonardi - The Mirror That Consumes You
Oliver Woodard - Howl If You're Horny
Zinaida Gaieva - BETWEEN THE SCREENS
Karim Nada - Background Action
BEST ACTOR
Michael Jibson - Rule, Britannia
Christopher Eccleston - SIGNAL
John McCrea - Think of England
Robert Dukes - Windswept
Ty Tennant - Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Ashley Byam - The Hold
BEST ACTRESS
Natalie Quarry - Think of England
Kellie Shirley - The Wolf
Aislinn De'Ath - Windswept
Callie Cooke - Esme's Life Sucks
Freya Parks - Eating Ice
Sally Phillips - Mayflies
BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Jack Redmayne - The Peril at Pincer Point
James Button - The Quackening
David Bradley - Life Goes On
James Bertie - Make Yourself At Home
Finlay McGuigan - Hot Wings
Dan Wye - Gay BFF
BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
Sarah Tiplady - Bulb
Lucy Heath - Colette
Lorna-Rose Treen - DeadTalk
Ada Player - Spare Part
Helen Bauer - Slag-Offers
Suzi Ruffell - Gay BFF
BEST ENsemble
HA'PENNY DIP
Conversations with Sisters
Eating Ice
Life Goes On
Collapsed Lad
Slag-Offers
Best Director
Max Fisher - Rule, Britannia
Maeve Murphy - The Wolf
Matt Chandler - Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Kat Butterfield, Daniel Audritt - Life Goes On
Ben Mallaby - The Bottom Line
Louisa Connolly-Burnham - The Intimacy Coordinator
Best COMEDY Director
Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn- The Peril at Pincer Point
Rory Waudby-Tolley - i have a
Florence Winter-Hill - DeadTalk
Ada Player, Bron Waugh - Spare Part
Jack Trowbridge - Collapsed Lad
Dean Kay-Barry / Three Shades - Make Yourself At Home
Best WRITER
Meat Raffle
All Change
Collapsed Lad
The Intimacy Coordinator
The Easy Way Out
Mayflies
BEST COMPOSER
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
You Told Us To Talk About the Weather
King of the Sandcastle
Legs!
Small Hours
i have a
BEST SOUND DESIGNER
Rule, Britannia
From the Dunes
The Intimacy Coordinator
Mayflies
Think of England
The Peril at Pincer Point
BEST EDITING
The Bag Lady
From the Dunes
Think of England
Picture of Calvin
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Mutiny
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Easy Way Out
The Wall
Blown It
FLOCK
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
DIS(INFORMATION)?
Best PRODUCTION DESIGN
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
Think of England
FLOCK
Esme's Life Sucks
Rot Girl Summer
Atlas
Best COSTUMES
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
Think of England
Esme's Life Sucks
Legs!
Dolos
Mutiny
Best Hair and Makeup
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
Esme's Life Sucks
Atlas
Howl If You're Horny
The Country Gentlewoman: Christmas Edition
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
SO FAR SO GOOD
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
Tamara Flores - Chingona
BEST DANCE FILM
SENTIENT (Trilogy of Terpsichore)
The Audition
DIS(INFORMATION)?
BEST ANIMATION
The Joke's Butt
Small Hours
i have a
Consequences
The Robertsons
Future Of…
A Grieving Heart
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Bag Lady
From the Dunes The Wall
Howlsavla Gwav
A Town Like Diss
What is Luxury?
BEST DRAMA
Where All Are Free
The Wolf
Every Time I See A Yellow Car
Mercury and Jupiter
Glass
The Easy Way Out
Best HORROR
Pleased to Kill You
Surprise!
Decorum
Switch
Voyager
Esme's Life Sucks
**This award will be given out on Thurs 22nd Oct at the Independent Horror Society Mixer**
Best FOLK
FLOCK
Howlsavla Gwav
The Golden Squacco Heron
A Town Like Diss
The Quackening
Dolos
Best COMEDY
The Peril at Pincer Point
Bulb
The Audition
Spare Part
Collapsed Lad
Make Yourself At Home
Best STUDENT FILM
Castaways
Legs!
An Eye For An Eye Chart
DeadTalk
Howl If You're Horny
Background Action
Best Experimental Work
Accidents & Emergencies
The Golden Squacco Heron
Eating Ice
Small Hours
Fractured Frame
A Very Serious Arthouse Film Project
Gabriella Leonardi - The Mirror That Consumes You
BEST POSTER
The Peril at Pincer Point
The Peril at Pincer Point
The Peril at Pincer Point
Rule, Britannia
The Peril at Pincer Point
The Peril at Pincer Point
Pig and Mix
The Peril at Pincer Point
Pig and Mix
Bulb
The Mirror That Consumes You
Pig and Mix
The Mirror That Consumes You
The Mirror That Consumes You
The Mirror That Consumes You
An Eye For An Eye Chart
The Mirror That Consumes You
The Mirror That Consumes You
Mutiny
Think of England
The Quackening
The Quackening
Think of England
The Quackening
