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Best Newcomer category
The films below were shortlisted for Grierson 2009 in
the Best Newcomer category.
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Winner
Storyville: I’m Not Dead Yet
Production Cº: Passion Pictures Ltd
BBC Four
Director Elizabeth Stopford
Producer John Battsek
A unique and personal film about the inheritance of a Gothic home and a family's unspoken past.
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Nominated
A1: The Road Musical
Production Cº: Endemol / Cheetah
Channel 4
Director/Producer Benjamin Till
Executive Producers Sara Ramsden, Catherine Welton
A musical about the A1 Road performed by some of the people who live and work along its length from London to Edinburgh. All those featured tell their genuine stories in music and song and everything is linked by a singing lorry driver who drives much of the road several times a week.
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Nominated
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Production Cº: Road Trip Films Pty
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008
Director/Producers Kirsty de Garis, Timothy Jolley
Executive Producers Sue Maslin, Daryl Dellora
Writers   Kirsty de Garis, Timothy Jolley
Series Editor Suresh Ayyar
A behind-the-scenes look at Vanity Fair writer, Dominick Dunne, one of the world’s greatest celebrities of print journalism.
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Nominated
Waiting for Women
Production Cº: National Film and Television School
National Film Theatre, BFI
Director/Producer Estephan Wagner
In the remote Spanish village of ‘Riofrio’ the women have left years ago. Only men are left without the slightest possibility to find a relationship. Not bearing the disastrous situation any longer, they organise a busload of single women to come from Madrid into their loneliness. Their ideal aim is to fall in love! But having never learned how to deal with women, beside their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, the event goes terribly wrong.
shortlisted
Emma and Ben
Production Cº: National Film and Television School
National Film Theatre, BFI
Director Vanessa Stockley
Producer Polly Stokes
Emma Bishop and Ben Marshall are a 28-year old Down’s Syndrome couple who dream of getting married to each other. EMMA AND BEN traces their journey towards making a decision about whether or not to get engaged. It explores the inner lives of young people with Down’s Syndrome and the nature of love.
shortlisted
The Last American Freak Show
Production Cº: Freak Show Productions
London International Documentary Festival
Director Richard Butchins
Producers Richard Butchins, Tim Sparks
Executive Producers   Anthony Wall, John Edginton
Careering across America in a ramshackle old school bus, run on stolen vegetable oil, and piloted by Lowrent the Clown. Samantha X and Dylan have started their own show, staring such self-defined freaks as The Lobster Girl, The Half Woman, Dame Demure, and The Elephant Man. This motley crew of outsiders are resurrecting the dying art of the sideshow, but with attitude.
shortlisted
Lifeproof: Carmel
Production Cº: Lambent Productions Ltd
Channel 4
Director Simon Alveranga
Series Producer Emma Hindley
Carmel is 20 and from Bristol. She’s been in care all her life but she has a great bunch of friends. Recently she met Callum and has started to have feelings for him. But Callum already has a girlfriend. Should she tell him? Carmel consults her friends and tries to make a decision, but then something happens that changes everything. Carmel decides that now is the time to tell him …….but what will Callum say?
shortlisted
The Seven Ages of Love
Production Cº: Keo Films
Channel 4
Director Zara Hayes
Producer Katie Buchanan
Writer   Luke Wright
The Seven Ages of Love (UK 2009) is a film that combines documentary and original poetry to paint a funny and moving picture of what love means to seven different couples. The poems are performed by the contributors, none of whom are trained actors of poets, but who collaborated closely with the director and poet in telling their story. s