Awards
The BSL Zone's films and programmes have been selected to be screened at festivals across the world. Below is a list of the awards we have won, in alphabetical order. How many have you seen?
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Director (Bim Ajadi) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
2015 |
Outstanding Contribution to Media Award (Director - Bim Ajadi) |
Deaffest |
2017 |
Best Short Film |
Deaf Rochester Film Festival |
50/50 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2010 |
Best Directors |
Ippocampus Ciak International Deaf Cinema Festival, Milan, Italy |
2010 |
Best Actor (Jacob Casselden) |
International Sign Language Festival, Tolosa, Spain |
2011 |
Best Comedy |
Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival, Canada |
Almost |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2020 |
Favourite Alternate Abilities Film |
Film Only Film Festival |
2020 |
Best Performance (Vilma Jackson) |
OutlantaCon Short Film Festival, Atlanta, USA |
Battle Lines |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Diversity Award |
Royal Television Society, Midlands Centre |
Boy from Before |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2010 |
Nomination for Best Children's Drama |
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Champion of the World |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Director |
Deaffest, UK |
2014 |
Best Director |
International Sign Language Festival, Tolosa, Spain |
Chasing Cotton Clouds |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2011 |
Best Film |
Deaffest, UK |
2012 |
Award for Best Animation |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival |
Close Up 1: Doug Alker |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2016 |
Nomination for Presenter of the Year (Tessa Padden) |
Royal Television Society North East and Border Centre Awards |
Coming Home |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2010 |
Reel International Audience Choice Award |
DCADF, Washington DC, USA |
Confession (Zoom Focus 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Art Direction |
Toronto Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
Crossing the Divide (Zoom 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2012 |
Runner Up, Best Documentary |
Irish Deaf Film Festival, Ireland |
2013 |
Best Short Documentary |
Toronto Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
2013 |
Honourable mention |
Picture This Film Festival, Canada |
Deaf Funny: Programme 1 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2017 |
Best Fiction |
Cinedeaf, Rome, Italy |
2018 |
Best Writer (Charlie Swinbourne) |
Royal Television Society (RTS) Yorkshire |
Deaf Funny: Programme 3 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2019 |
Best Television Programme |
Deaffest, Wolverhampton, UK |
Deaf Victorians |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2017 |
Best Screenwriter (Norma McGilp) |
Deaffest, UK |
Departure Lounge |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2010 |
Best Film |
Deaffest, UK |
2010 |
Best Short Film |
Ippocampus Ciak, Milan, Italy |
2011 |
Merit Award |
SuperFest, Berkeley, California, USA |
2012 |
Honourable Mention |
Picture This Film Festival, Canada |
Dot's Legacy |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2018 |
Semi-Finalist |
Courage Festival |
Double Discrimination (Zoom Focus 2014) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2016 |
Disability Justice Award |
Superfest International Film Festival, USA |
Fairytale of London Town |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2011 |
Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking |
Anthem Libertarian Film Festival, Las Vegas, USA |
2011 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
2011 |
Award of Excellence: Short Film |
Accolade Film Festival, California, USA |
2011 |
Best Cinematography |
International Sign Language Film Festival, Tolosa, Spain |
2011 |
Best Drama |
Toronto International Deaf Films & Arts Festival, Canada |
2012 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
Cinedeaf, Rome, Italy |
2012 |
Best Actress (Sarah Beauvoisin) |
Ippocampus Ciak, Milan, Italy |
Five Needles (Zoom 2011) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2012 |
Youth Prize |
European Film Festival, Miami |
2013 |
Best Drama |
Toronto Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
Found |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2016 |
Award of Merit, Documentary Short |
Accolade Global Film Competition |
Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Film |
International Sign Language Festival, Tolosa, Spain |
Hope |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2019 |
Deaf Shorts Showcase Award |
Encounters Film Festival |
2019 |
Best Film |
X Tolosa International Deaf Film Festival |
If I Don't Lose, I'll Lose (Zoom 2014) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Actress (Caroline Parker) |
CineDeaf, Rome, Italy |
2015 |
Best Actress (Caroline Parker) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
2016 |
Best Short Comedy Screenplay Award |
Alliance for Women in Media Southern California and Genii Awards |
I Want To Change The World |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2020 |
Best Documentary |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival |
2020 |
Children's |
RTS West of England |
Life Out There |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2014 |
Honourable Mention |
Picture This, Canada |
2015 |
Best Actor (Sean Richards) |
Manos K Rien Festival IV, San Sebastian (Spain) |
Little World (Zoom 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2012 |
Best Experimental |
1st Irish Deaf Film Festival, Ireland |
2012 |
Best International Short |
Turquoise Film Festival, Australia |
2012 |
Best Animation |
Maine Deaf Film Festival, USA |
2013 |
Honourable Mention |
Picture This Film Festival, Canada |
My Song |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2011 |
Best Short Film |
Deaf in the Picture, Holland |
2011 |
Best Actress (Lara Steward) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
Punk Chef: Kids Challenge - Episode 1 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2016 |
Best Children's Programme (nomination) |
Broadcast Awards |
Scottish Islanders |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Documentary |
Deaffest, UK |
September 11th (Zoom 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Actress (Aliya Gulamani) |
Deaffest, UK |
2014 |
Best Actress (Aliya Gulamani) |
International Sign Language Festival, Tolosa (Spain) |
Shakespeare: Found in Translation |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Documentary Short Film |
Toronto International Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
Signs of an Affair |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2017 |
Best Actress (Jean St Clair) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
2017 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
CineDeaf, Rome, Italy |
2018 |
Audience Participation Award |
Shanghai Deaf Film Festival |
Small World 1: Episode 1 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Actor (Brian Duffy) |
Deaffest, UK |
Small World 1: Episode 3 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2017 |
Best Actor (Matthew Gurney) |
Deaffest, UK |
Still Here |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2012 |
Best Actor (John Smith) |
Ippocampus Ciak, Milan, Italy |
2013 |
Best Comedy |
Toronto International Deaf Films & Arts Festival, Canada |
2013 |
Best Actor (Hal Draper) |
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2013 |
Best Actress (Jean St Clair) |
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2013 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
International Sign Language Festival, Tolosa, Spain |
2014 |
Best Comedy/Musical |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival, USA |
Strangers (Zoom 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Director (Brian Duffy) |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
Supersonic |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Best Fantasty/Animation |
Toronto International Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
2016 |
Best Short Film |
Providence Children's Film Festival, USA |
2016 |
Best Action/Thriller Film |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival, USA |
2016 |
Best of Festival Award (Shorts) |
Superfest International Disability Festival, USA |
The Big Decisions (Zoom 2014) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2015 |
Second Prize |
Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival, Texas, USA |
2016 |
Best Short Film |
LA Disability Film Festival, USA |
The End (Zoom Focus 2011) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2011 |
Honorable Mention |
Deaffest, UK |
2011 |
Best Film |
Clin d'Oeil, France |
2012 |
Best Short Drama |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival, USA |
2012 |
Best Short Film |
Cinedeaf, Rome, Italy |
2012 |
Best Film |
Irish Deaf Film Festival, Ireland |
2012 |
Best Film |
Look and Roll Festival, Switzerland |
2013 |
Best Director (Ted Evans) |
Deaffest, UK |
2014 |
International TV Award of Sign Language Productions |
SVT, Sweden |
2015 |
Audience Award |
Nottingham Alternative Film Network, UK |
To Know Him |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2018 |
Deaf Shorts Award |
Encounters Film Festival |
2018 |
Nomination for Best Performance (female) in a single drama or drama series (Jemma Joyce) |
Royal Television Society (RTS) North West |
2018 |
Nomination for Best Script Writer (Kellie Smith) |
Royal Television Society (RTS) North West |
2018 |
Nomination for Best British Short Film |
British Independent Film Awards |
2019 |
Longlisted for Best British Short Film |
BAFTA |
2019 |
Best Film |
Deaffest, Wolverhampton, UK |
2020 |
Best Drama |
Seattle Deaf Fim Festival |
Tree Fairy |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2014 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
Maine Deaf Film Festival, USA |
2014 |
Best Drama |
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2015 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
Toronto International Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
2015 |
Best Director (Louis Neethling) |
Deaffest, Wolverhampton, UK |
2015 |
Best Drama |
Cindeaf, Rome, Italy |
Who cares? |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Documentary |
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2013 |
Best Foreign Film |
Finland Sign Language Film Festival |
2013 |
Best Director (Camilla Arnold) |
Cindeaf, Italy |
2015 |
Documentary Award |
Picture This, Canada |
Wicked 2: Programme 1 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2009 |
Best TV Programme |
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2009 |
Doing Media Differently: Factual Programming |
RADAR People of the Year |
Wicked 3: Programme 8 |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2011 |
Best TV Programme |
Deaffest, UK |
You, Me (Zoom Focus 2012) |
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| Year | Award | Festival |
2013 |
Best Director (Simon Herdman) |
Toronto Deaf Film Festival, Canada |
2016 |
Best Drama Film |
Seattle Deaf Film Festival, USA |
Here/Not Here
Deaf hip hop music drama exploring sign language, dance, football and Visual Vernacular (VV).
Two Deaf Yorkshiremen in Lockdown
Light hearted comedy about two grumpy old Deaf men living in Yorkshire during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
Being Marcus
Observational documentary, providing an honest insight into the experiences of a Deaf trans man.