As George Peppard said to Holly Golightly, we love it when a plan comes together. Remember our foray into film festivals, The View From Here and Two Short Nights? Of course you do, you’ve already kept next year free. Well, the former has informed the latter.

The Crossed Lines short, which premiered at The View From Here Village Screen events (and was facilitated by co-organisers Blind Ditch) picked up the audience award for Best Young Person’s Film at Two Short Nights.

Audience award? Sure thing – we here at D+CFilm promote movies of every kind at every level.

Crossed Lines is an engaging tale (gaffaw!) based on research with older people on how teenage life has changed in the region over the past 50 years. The filmmaking team also made a documentary interviewing people about their lives in the region.

Felek Werpachowski, the young director of Crossed Lines, told D+CFilm: “It was quite a surprise to win the award and it shows all the hard work that everyone put into it paid off.

“I’m glad that it was voted by the audience which makes it more meaningful – that we’ve made something that people want to watch.”

Jonas Hawkins, manager of the Exeter Phoenix Media Centre, said: “It was the first time that we’ve held a young peoples event as part of the Two Short Nights Festival and the high standard of films submitted shows the amount of budding talent there is in the region.

“The young people’s films were very diverse in content and style. Dealing with the themes of teenage pregnancy and difficulties in communication between the generations can result in films that are quite clichéd but Crossed Lines was a fresh approach and extremely watchable.”

Stay tuned for more news about the Village Screen events, film festivals and all the film and media related news in the region.

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