Dead By Dawn - Film Festival

Location
Cinema One @ Film house, Edinburgh

Date
24th-27th April

Entry Requirements 

• Dead by Dawn has a rolling submissions policy which means you are welcome to submit at any time.  There is no fee for submission.

• Sh0uld be formatted in PAL or NTSC DVD 

• Submissions must include a submission form – either with the DVD or by email

•  work-in-progress or rough cut cannot be submitted without contacting them first

• If selected, you must provide any posters, press kits and/or other promotional materials.  These should not be sent until requested and should be sent at your own cost and will not be returned.  300dpi Images for our catalogue should be sent by email only

Opportunities

• Affiliated with Film House, Sex Gore Mutants and Robber Barron Productions.
• Not money awards but it is a notable award
• Prestigious UK festival (especially for horror/in Scotland) 

Winners 

Awards

All new features screened are eligible for The Audience Award for Best Feature.  The Cutting Edge Short Film Competition rewards debut and emerging directors.  The Audience Award for Best Short covers all the other short films played as part of the main programme and across all other strands, including What You Make It.

2011

• Audience Award for Best Feature: HAROLD’S GOING STIFF and STAKE LAND
• Joint Audience Awards for Best Short: THE LIVING WANT ME DEAD
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: HUNGRY HICKORY
• 2D & Deranged Animation Programme winner: VICENTA

2010

• Audience Award for Best Feature: 5150 RUE DES ORMES
• Joint Audience Awards for Best Short: TUFTY and DANSE MACABRE
• There was no Cutting Edge programme at this one day special event, but that competition and award will return at our 2011 festival

2009

• Audience Award for Best Feature: COLD STORAGE, dir Tony Elwood
• Audience Award for Best Short: NEXT FLOOR, dir Denis Villeneuve
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: KIRKSDALE, dir Ryan Spindell

2008

• Audience Award for Best Feature: STUCK, dir Stuart Gordon
• Audience Award for Best Short: SPIDER, dir Nash Edgerton
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: CRITICIZED, dir Richard Gale

2007

• Audience Award for Best Feature: END OF THE LINE, dir Maurice Devereaux
• Audience Award for Best Short: MONSTER, dir Jennifer Kent
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: THE FIFTH, Ryan Levin

2006

• Joint Audience Award for Best Feature: BROKEN, dir Adam Mason / BLOOD TRAILS, dir Robert Krause
• Audience Award for Best Short: OCULUS, dir Mike Flanagan
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: LOS OJOS DE ALICIA, dir Hugo Sanz

2005

• Audience Award for Best Feature: THE DARK HOURS, dir Paul Fox
• Audience Award for Best Short: THE TEN STEPS, dir Brendan Muldowney
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: THE FRENCH DOORS, dir Steve Ayson

2004

• Audience Award for Best Feature: SHALLOW GROUND, dir Sheldon Wilson
• Audience Award for Best Short: WARD 13, dir Peter Cornwell
• Cutting Edge Short Film Competition winner: BURIED, dir Tim Bullock