(Yak) Butter Lamp
Impulsively created Chinese documentary The Questioning won the Bill Douglas Award in the Glasgow Short Film Festival awards ceremony tonight, with a special mention going to Robin McKay's How To Abandon Ship. The International Audience Award winner was (Yak) Butter Lamp and the Euroshort prize went to Matus Vizar's Pandas.
Hu Wei was unable to attend as he is currently working on his next film in Beijing. He did send a message re-played at the awards ceremony, describing himself as "very, very excited and happy" to have won an award he described as "a great honour". He dedicated it to "the people working for freedom in China", describing it as "a very important award for [himself] and [his] friends".
Robin McKay was in attendance, describing herself as "humbled by the calibre of the work" being screened at the Festival. The international jury were effusive in their praise describing that.
Impulsively created Chinese documentary The Questioning won the Bill Douglas Award in the Glasgow Short Film Festival awards ceremony tonight, with a special mention going to Robin McKay's How To Abandon Ship. The International Audience Award winner was (Yak) Butter Lamp and the Euroshort prize went to Matus Vizar's Pandas.
Hu Wei was unable to attend as he is currently working on his next film in Beijing. He did send a message re-played at the awards ceremony, describing himself as "very, very excited and happy" to have won an award he described as "a great honour". He dedicated it to "the people working for freedom in China", describing it as "a very important award for [himself] and [his] friends".
Robin McKay was in attendance, describing herself as "humbled by the calibre of the work" being screened at the Festival. The international jury were effusive in their praise describing that.
- 2/16/2014
- by Jennie Kermode and Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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