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LEEDSflix International Film & Screenplay Festival

We are a REAL film festival with a REAL screening of ALL our WINNING films.


Based within a stroll of Louis Le Prince’s famous Roundhay Garden Scene in Leeds, England (the first film ever shot) and run by an award-winning screenwriter/producer and a pioneering University Film Lecturer, LEEDSflix honours Le Prince’s achievements by celebrating the best in new short filmmaking and screenwriting.

LEEDSflix is run via FilmFreeway and recognises work from experienced filmmakers, local Leeds and Yorkshire based creatives and student films produced by those studying in the city and beyond. Categories include narrative short films, documentaries and short screenplays.

The winning short films from the competition are showcased at LEEDSflix Short Film Events – which take place quarterly.

For more information email us here.

To enter our competition visit https://filmfreeway.com/LEEDSflix

LEEDSflix Short Film Screenings at the Roundhay Parochial Hall, Leeds

Season 3 Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to all our competition winners, finalists and nominees.

Short Film

Winner


Like Stars
Kali Bailey

Short Film Finalists

Bluewaspman
James Barlow

Casa Susanna
Pauline Bernard-Vernay

The Connoisseur
Anne Marie Boidock

Nominees: No Strings by Molly Lipson, / Lily by Scham Salomon / Diego Valazquez: A Body of Work by Walter Haussner / Forget Me Not by Kiran Daniel Suppiah

Short Film made by a Student

Winner



UPGRADE
Hope Evans

Short Film made by a Student Finalists

Down by the Sea 
Mia Ainsley

Spectacle
Shantelle-Ellysé English

Nominees:
Squatters by Leo Boothman / Ikebana by Katya Iwasko / Paralyzed by Tyler Robert Norton / Project Nirvana by Jacob Barnes

Best Experimental Film

Winner


(The) Potato Head
Matthew David Johnston

Best Experimental Film Finalist

Une Réflexion
Margarethe Baillou

Best Short Made in Yorkshire

Winner



On Strings
Tom Lee

Best Short Made in Yorkshire Finalist

Self Tape 
Ryan Darkfield

Nominee:
Forget Me Not by Kiran Daniel Suppiah

Best Actor’s Monologue

Winner



Beautiful Boy
Tim Seyfert

Best Short Comedy

Winner



Yen for Zen
James Pyle

Best Short Comedy Finalist

Turn On 
Nathan Keith Williams

Nominees:
Bonito’s Creative Epiphany by Mario Gregoriou / Easter Sunday Massacre by William Nicholas Clay / Live, Laugh, Love!  by Angelina Templar

Best Short Documentary

Winner

A Hidden Legacy
Tom Hopper

Best Short Documentary Finalists

The Quiet Art
Johnny Phillips

The Legacy of Joseph Poole
Charline Fernandez

Nominees:

Tractor Boys & Girls by Robbie Laughton / Humanity by Richard Oliver

Best Short Action/Thriller

Winner


Heist School
Loïc Dewaele

Best Short Action/Thriller Finalist

Jack
Dan Robbins

Best Short Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy

Winner

Upgrade
Hope Evans

Best Short Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy Finalist

Fruitless 
Orlando Solano

Nominee:
Kreaster by Jacob Cooney

Best Short Documentary Made in Yorkshire

Winner

A Hidden Legacy
Tom Hopper

Judge’s Choice Award

Winner

I Remember
Kyle Beights

Best Short Script

Winner


Your Choice to Leave
Lara Czernecki

Best Short Script Finalists

Ashlee Knows
Tommy Britt

Lab Partners
Tommy Britt

Nominees:
Underpass by Israfil Yagubov / Notified by Gary Miceli

Season 3 Screening Event, 5th June 2025

Season 2 Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to all our competition winners and finalists.

Short Film

Winner


The Funeral
Denise Taylor

Short Film Finalists


A Metre Close
Karan Maini


Long Play
Bernard Madill


SOBER the struggle no one else can see
Pauli Janhunen

Short Film made by a Student

Winner



Overdue
Sam McLeod

Short Film made by a Student Finalists


Shoebox
Edward Clover


Echoes of the Violet Glade
Holly Jonas, Emma Negus

Best Experimental Film

Winner


Snail Roc
Luke Gabriel Robinson

Best Experimental Film Finalists


The Sight is a Wound
Parham Ghalamdar


Water Under a Bridge
Andrew Payne

Best Short Made in Yorkshire

Winner



Hollywood Nights
Liam Sanderson

Best Actor’s Monologue

Winner



Pramkicker
Jemma Bentley

Best Short Comedy

Winner



Non Starter
James Pyle

Best Short Documentary Made by Students Finalist


I Made the Time Machine
Luke Walters

Short Documentary Film made by Students

Winner


Fields Ahead
Lucy Frost

Best Short Documentary Made by Students Finalist


Fading Fires
Benjamin Lev Bogorad

Best Short Horror

Winner


Script
Piero Cannata

Judge’s Choice Award

Winner

Disclosure
Matthew Gowland

Best Short Script

Winner


Only Words
Jan Ruppe

Best Short Script Finalists


Steal Me
Jeffrey Morin


Roots
Cesar Sanchis Romero

Best Short Script by a Student

Winner


Nina
Alisa Sakson

Season Two Screening Event, 6th February 2025

Season 1 Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to all our competition winners and finalists.

Short Film

Winner


Exchange Rate
Emma Stansfield

Short Film Finalists


A Summer’s Life
Fallon Westlake


Bully
Martin Stocks


Alph-FUN-a-bet! with Imagination Jack
James Pyle


Headlights
Adam Green


Seine
Dan Horrigan


Safe
Debbie Howard

Short Film made by a Student

Winner



Sandwich Suspicions
Antonia Frances Walsh

Short Film made by a Student Finalists


August Rain
Callum Clay Knott


Craven
Elian Beaumont


No Longer Angel
Anita D’Alisera

Short Film made in Yorkshire

Winner


Winter Song
Kate Graham

Short Film made in Yorkshire Finalists


Twenty Four
Nile Winterton


Shoot from the Hip
Jack Buyukyilmaz


AlpNight Terror 2: The Awakening
David Duke

Feature Documentary Film

Winner



Human Crisis: A Week with NGOs in Calais, France
Nick Blundell

Feature Film

Winner



Never Have I Ever
Damon Rickard

Short Documentary Film made by Students

Winner


Drive my Kart
Oscar Lock

Short Documentary Film made in Yorkshire

Winner


Working Classical Heroes
Katie Greenhalf

Judge’s Choice Award

Winner

Together
Elian Beaumont

Best Short Script

Winner


Drystone
Chloe Banks

Best Short Script Finalists


Road Kill
Peter Gould


Human Nature
Thomas Webster


Tap
Frank Alexander Hull

Best Short Script by a Yorkshire Writer

Winner


The Estate
Rachel D Griffiths

Best Feature Script

Winner


Master Blaster
Daniel Meyers

Best Feature Script Finalists


Tootersen from Middlesbrough
Yaroslav Akhromov

Season One Screening Event, 3rd October 2025