The English Riviera
Film Festival Awards
We have grown from a single day’s event in 2015 to a year-round programme of screening events, workshops, panels and networking, all culminating in the English Riviera International Film Awards. Previous award winners have hailed from the USA, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan. We have been delighted to offer a warm welcome to delegates from across the globe whose films have been shortlisted. We have shown films from twenty-five countries .
The awards have been made since 2017 by Our Glass in Cockington, Torquay, Devon, and were sponsored by Twigger Solutions for our 10th Anniversary year.
Watch - Selected ERFF Award Winners
Best Film Score : Lyonesse – The Echo and The Call
The People’s String Foundation
Best Ensemble Cast – Festival Director’s Choice – Becca Comes to Visit
Ethan Josh Lee, Junah Jang, Morgan Gwilym Tso and David Mazouz
Best Actor : Gabriel Thomson
Hungry like the wolf
Best Actress : Laura Sépul
Sagah
Best Cinematography : Timoty Aliprandi
Red Ropes
Best Screenplay : Christofer Nilsson
The Ballad
Best Director : Christofer Nilsson
The Ballad
Best Documentary Film : Alone across Gola
Jude Kriwald
Best Animated Film : A Monstrous Cure
Kazem Kehinde Balogun
English Riviera Film Festival Award ( South West ) : Art
Ben Kernow and Izzy Wilkinson
Honourable Mention – Festival Directors Choice Best Film – Block
Oisin Tymon and Neil Edson
Audience Award : Alone across Gola
Jude Kriwald
Best Newcomer : Melanie Stockton-Brown and Amy Tatum
Beloved
Best Score : Harry Brokensha
Guide me Home
Best Screenplay : Bridget O’Driscoll and Jerome Wiciak
Relay
Best Cinematography : Keidrych Wasley
Guide me home
Best Actor : Michael Muyunda
Lifelike
Best Actress : Amada Santos
Gods
Best Documentary Film : Best Foot Forward
Lewis Carter and Kate Beasley
Best Animated Film : On/Off
Nicolas P Villarreal
Best Director : Bridget O’Driscoll
Replay
South Devon College Film Makers of the year : Milly Green and Samuel Jordan
English Riviera Film Festival Award (Devon ) Festival Director’s Choice : Agatha Swims
Amanda Bluglass and Karen Marshall
English Riviera Film Festival Award ( Devon ) : Wake
Katie Beard and Naomi Turner
Best Makeup : The day you long for
Best Screenplay : Keep Breathing
Emmeline Hartley, Mark Corden, and Tommy draper
Best Cinematography : Boris Hallvig
Shuttlecock
Best Actor : Jean Claude-Dreyfus
Bless me father
Best Actress : Emmeline Hartley
Keep Breathing
Best Documentary Film : Get bigger, get different or get out
James Cox
Best Animated Film : Grit
Matt Thomas
Best Director : Kieran Stringfellow
Bulldog
English Riviera Film Festival Award ( Devon ) : Shuttlecock
Tommy Gillard, Simeon Costello and Ashleigh Powell
Audience Award : 16 Days
Natasha Moore and Justin Shelvin
Best Film : Shuttlecock
Tommy Gillard, Simeon Costello and Ashleigh Powell
South Devon College Film Maker of the year : Nathan Grant
Best Comedy : School’s out
Jamille van Wijngaarden
Best Actor : Emerson Pike
Cut From Cloth
Best Actress : Jodie Price
Safekeeping
Best Animated film : Featherweight
Kayleigh Gibbons
Best Cinematography Runners up
All that Remains and Chumbak
Best Cinematography : Halyna Hutchins
Treacle
Best Director : Rosie Westhoff
Treacle
English Riviera Film Festival Award : Cut From Cloth
Tommy Gillard and Simeon Costello
Audience Award : School’s out
Jamille van Wijngaarden
Semi Finalist : Best Film : Swivel
Lois Norman
Best Film : Chumbak
Isabelle van Hoorn and Tobias Edward Theodore Worrall
Best Screenplay : Tristan Taylor and Garrick Bernard
Foxes
Best Actress : Christian Hardy
Fort Box
Best Actor : Ayinde Howell
Foxes
Best Director : Bridget O’ Driscoll
Session no.78
English Riviera Film Festival Award : Flies
Baobab
Audience Award : Samsara
Lucy Townsend
Best Film : Catastrophe
Jamille van Wijngaarden
South Devon College Film maker of the year : Team for the film Run
Nicole Rosen, James Bridgeman , Shannon Brown, Riekus Thompson and Sophie Hill Presented by Peter Richardson
Best Screenplay : Ilona McCrea
Dear Kate
Best Actress : Emily Haigh
The Inuring
Best Actor : Yasuhiro Lto
Automation
Best Director : Kenjo McCurtain
Automation
Audience Award : It Girl
Simon Lex
Best Film : Dear Kate
Iiona McCrea and Matthew Ackland