Lift-Off Global Network

The **Lift-Off Global Network** is an international film festival selecting each year different independent short films and feature films from all over the world. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered at Pinewood Studios, UK. It highlights the works of young independent filmmakers and emerging directors.

## Official sections

_In Competition_
<sub>The following films were selected to compete for the Lift-Off Global Network:</sub>
|**Year**|**English title**|**Director(s)**|official selection|Winners|**Production country**|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2011|Worship|Calum Macdiarmid||Season Winner|UK|||
|2012||||||||
|rowspan="4"|<small>2013/2014</small>|Mr X|Alex Nicholson||<sub>Won Los Angeles Lift-Off 2014</sub>|United States||
|Pulling Away|Al White||Won Los Angeles Lift-Off 2013|United States||||
|MoleHills|Rupert Hill||Special Mention Award Winner, Liverpool and Las Vegas Lift-Off’s 2014|United States||||
|Jazz Ball|Ian Jones||Won London Lift-Off 2013|UK||||
|rowspan="7"|2015|The Ramona Flowers|Bouha Kazmi|<small>Winning Official Selection:</small>||Tokyo||
|I Want to Be Happy Cha Cha Cha|Jonathan Schey|Special Mention / Winning Official Selection||Amsterdam||||
|Aurélia|Jade Courtney Edwards|Special Mention / Winning Official Selection /Los Angeles Lift-Off 2015||Los Angeles||||
|Lift|Mark Stenhouse|Las Vegas Lift-Off 2015/ Special Mention / Winning Official Selection||Las  vegas||||
|Another Green World|Christina Hardinge|Liverpool Lift-Off 2015/Special Mention / Winning Official Selection||||||
|Francis B. Griffin (Documentry)|Paul Griffin|Best Documentary/ Winning a full Official Selection for Lift-Off 2015 Season||||||
|A Complicated Way to Live by|Ged Hunter.|Best Narrative/Winning a full Official Selection for Lift-Off 2015 Season||||||
|rowspan="7"|2016|Last Summer|Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli|rowspan="2"|Nominees for Best Feature Live Action Narrative||Brazil|
|Backroad|Hiroya Taka||(Japan)|||||
|My Feral Heart|Jane Gull||Winner|uk||||
|The Fighter|Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza|rowspan="3"|Nominees for Best Feature Documentary||(South Africa)|||
|Ken Foster|Josh Lanner||(Canada)|||||
|7 Days in Syria|Robert Rippberger||(USA)|||||
|White Cliffs|Georgina Savage||Winner: White Cliffs|(Australia)||||
|rowspan="5"|2016|Finding Beauty in the Rubble||rowspan="5"|Nominees for Best Short Documentary|||
|Bikini Words||Winner: Bikini Words||||||
|The River Man||||||||
|The Happy Warriors||||||||
|I Take Photos||||||||
|rowspan="5"|2017|CAINA|Stefano Amatucci|rowspan="4"|Nomination for best feature narrative|||
|Zelos|Jo-Anne Brechin|||||||
|The Ones That Stay|Loïc Paillard|||||||
|Die Tochter - Dark Blue Girl|Mascha Schilinski|||||||
|Teenage Love Bomb|Mads Erichsen||WINNER|||||
|rowspan="11"|2017|Spaceman|Christopher Oliva|rowspan="9"|Nomination for Best Short Live Action Narrative|||
|Game|jeannie Donohoe|||||||
|Soldier Bee|Alex Hardy|||||||
|Contractor 014352|Simon Ryninks|||||||
|Mausoleum|Lauri Randla|||||||
|The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler|Paul Philipp|||||||
|The Accomplice|Jon Hoeg & John F. Beach|||||||
|Wraps|Frank Tamburin|||||||
|Rosie, Oh|Andy Koeger|||||||
|Enemies Within|Sélim Azzazi||WINNER|||||
|The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler|Paul Philipp||Best Director|||||
|2018|Rabbits|Alex Alexandrou||||||
|rowspan="4"||Sylvia|Richard Prendergast||Winner Best First-Time Film|||
|Turning Tide|Andrew Muir|Nomination for  Best First-Time Film||||||
|The Old Woman and the Sea|Esme Hicks|||||||
|Touchpaper|Patrick Hopkins|||||||
|rowspan="9"|2018|Judith Hotel|Charlotte Le Bon||Winner Best Director|||
|Chien de Garde|Sophie Dupuis|rowspan="4"|Nomination for Best Director|||||
|Cotton Wool|Nicholas Connor|||||||
|King of the Wind Demon|Clémence Poésy|||||||
|The Best of All Worlds|Adrian Goiginger|||||||
|Drug Runner|Charlotte Regan|Best Short Documentary||||||
|Sylvia|Richard Prendergast|Special Mention||||||
|Poacher|Tom Whitworth||Winning Short Film|||||
|Even Jesus Was Bipolar|Yamile Calderond & Edward Cunniffe||Winning Feature Film|||||
|rowspan="11"|2019|Boiling Point|Philip Barantini|rowspan="5"|Nominated For Best Director|WINNER||
|The Plunge|Simon Ryninks|||||||
|A Battle in Waterloo|Emma Moffat|||||||
|10 Seconds to Glory|José Alvarenga Jr|||||||
|The Cunning Man|Zoë Dobson|||||||
|Boiling Point|Philip Barantini||WINNER|||||
|Philophobia|Guy Davies||WINNER For Best Feature Live Action Narrative|||||
|Guest Artist|Timothy Busfield|rowspan="4"|Nominated for Best Feature Live Action Narrative|||||
|10 Seconds to Glory|José Alvarenga Jr|||||||
|The Last Witness|Piotr Szkopiak|||||||
|Widow's Walk|Alexandra Boyd|||||||
|rowspan="6"|2019|My Father The Martyr|Harris Alvi||WINNER Best First-Time Filmmaker|||
|The Stocky Broker|Theo Jessel|rowspan="5"|Nominated For Best First-Time Filmmaker|||||
|Bad Mother|Marnie Baxter & Nicola Stuart-Hil|||||||
|Tête de Mule|Victor Bargès|||||||
|Rocket Boy|Simon Sorted|||||||
|The Fish Out of Water|Josh Brine|||||||
|rowspan="4"|2019|Fighting for a City|Greg Hardes & Jacob Proud||WINNER For Best Feature Documentary|||
|Larry (Yust Explains)|Super Cool Wins in the End|rowspan="3"|Nominated For Best Feature Documentary|||||
|Buddy Goes to Nollywood|Michael Lebor|||||||
|Underdog|Freyja Kristinsdóttir|||||||
|rowspan="10"|2020|Osworld|Philip Hedegaard Povlsen||Best Director|||
|Missing|Alexander Hankoff|rowspan="4"|Nominated For Best Director|||||
|Sweet Street|Coz Greenop|||||||
|Magralen|Maryam Zarei|||||||
|Ex-Wife Monogatari|Zihao Su|||||||
|Born Just Now|Robert Adanto||Winner Best Feature Documentary|||||
|Sockeye Salmon. Red fish|Dmitriy Shpilenok & Vladislav Grishin|rowspan="4"|Nominated For Best Feature Documentary|||||
|Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road|Jeremy Dylan Potts|||||||
|Immaterial|Shinji Shiozaki & Felipe Santiago|||||||
|Exploring the Known|Matthew Hollis|||||||
|rowspan="12"|2020|Osworld|Philip Hedegaard Povlsen||Winner For Best Director|||
|Missing|Alexander Hankoff|rowspan="4"|Nominated For Best Director|||||
|Sweet Street|Coz Greenop|||||||
|Magralen|Maryam Zarei|||||||
|Ex-Wife Monogatari|Zihao Su|||||||
|Leopard|James Arden||Winner Best First Time Film Maker|||||
|Antonio|Alison Still|rowspan="5"|Nominated For Best First-Time Filmmaker|||||
|The Yellow Jacket|Andreas Mortensen|||||||
|Taboo|Olivia Altavilla|||||||
|Spanish Pigeon|Stefan J Fideli|||||||
|Appetite|Xuemeng Li & Katrin Larissa Kasper|||||||
|Last Drop Film|Nishith Sahasransu Ray|Officially Selection At First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Lift-Off Global Network||||||
|rowspan="5"|2020|Radio Vanille|Jack Laurance||Winner Best Short Documentary|||
|Streets of Lagos|Dom West|rowspan="4"|Nominated At First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Lift-Off Global Network|||||
|LITTLE BASTARD|Harun Hazar|||||||
|Guinjata Bay|Rob Murray|||||||
|God of hope|Adam Kavanagh|||||||
|rowspan="5"|2021|A Lucid Dream|Li Yue||Winner For Best Director|||
|What if?|Katia Shannon|||||||
|Doublespeak|Hazel McKibbin|||||||
|King of Raven|Piotr J. Lewandowski|||||||
|Mamaville|Irmak Karasu|||||||
|rowspan="4"|2021|HELLO SUNSHINE|Joe Quint||Winner For Best Short Documentary|||
|COSMOTO|ROBIN MELLOR|rowspan="3"|Nominated For Best Short Documentary|||||
|Valley of the Wolf|Antonio Valerio Frascella, Lamia Sabic, Gabriela Forfotӑ|||||||
|Under the Skin - In Conversation with Anish Kapoor|Martina Margaux Cozzi|||||||
|rowspan="4"|2021|King of Ravens|Piotr J. Lewandowski||Winner For Best Feature Live Action Narrative|||
|Mambo Man|Mo Fini & Edesio Alejandro|rowspan="3"|Nominated For Best Feature Live Action Narrative|||||
|The Imaginary State|Alan Fischer|||||||
|Love Laboratory|Muchao Wang, Fangmin Wang|||||||

### Best Directors

- 2016 :Jane Gull
- 2017 : Paul Philip
- 2018 : Charlotte LeBon
- 2019 : Philip Barantini
- 2020 : Philip Hedegaard Povlsen
- 2021 : Li Yue
- 2022: Kate McMullen

## Other websites

- _Indo-French collabs by Soumita Saha and Greg Sauzet goes to Lift Off Filmmaker Session Film Festival_, sur indulgexpress.com
- _The Great Indian Tamarind Tree” documentary made by Chilkuri Sushil Rao being screened at Lift-Off Film Festival, UK_ , sur hindudayashankar.com
- _Soumita Saha’s Music Video Represents India In Iver Heath, England’s Lift Off Filmmaker Session Film Festival 2023_, sur boldoutline.in
- _Amdavadi Director Wins Two Awards For Short Film_, sur ahmedabadmirror.com
- https://liftoff.network/london-lift-off-film-festival-2014/, liftoff.network
- [Https://www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/reviews-art-culture/lift-off-film-festival-talk/ https://www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/reviews-art-culture/lift-off-film-festival-talk/], theransomnote.com
- https://www.movingimage.org.uk/events/my-feral-heart/, movingimage.org