'A SILENT STORY' IN COMPETITION AT ZÜRICH FILM FESTIVAL

Last week Zürich Film Festival announced their program for this year. We are thrilled to share, that Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s A Silent Story has been selected for the documentary competition.

The Documentary Film Competition is one of three main categories at Zürich Film Festival, and A Silent Story will be competing for the “Golden Eye” alongside 13 other documentary films.

We are happy for the attention and feedback that A silent Story has been receiving lately and will follow closely as the festival takes place in Zürich from 28. September – 08. October 2023.

'A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS' NOMINATED FOR GRIERSON AWARD

Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary film A House Made of Splinters has been nominated for a Grierson Award in the category ‘Best Single Documentary – International’.

This years’ Grierson Awards is the 51st of its’ kind, and it will take place in London on the 9th of November. The awards, also known as British Documentary Awards, commemorate Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson (1898 – 1972) and are given to documentaries that “have made a significant contribution to the genre and that demonstrate quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence.”

Director Simon Lereng Wilmont explains, that “On the surface it (A House Made of Splinters, red.) is a story about neglect, but on a deeper level it is just as much an uplifting and universal story about hope and about children’s ability to survive and find the magic in life despite tragic circumstances.”

We are excited that A House Made of Splinters has been nominated, and we will follow the British Documentary Awards closely, as winners are revealed on November 9th. You can find out more about the awards and all the films that have been nominated here.