Funding & Talent

PULSE 2006 Awardees

Wish
Writer/Director: Matthew Day; Producer: Anna Higgs
Two girls invent a game where nobody wins. Just make a wish and see…

 

Eddie Proctor
Writer/Director: Susanna Wallin; Producer: Nikki Weston
Inside a suburban table tennis centre a group of people kill their time playing ping-pong. On one winter’s evening Eddie Proctor steps out of the game.

 

Border Work
Writer/Director: Tom Wright; Producer: Paul Beard
Egos clash when 22-year-old Rob is left to supervise a gardening job with Feliks, a Polish immigrant twice his age.

 

Monkey Nut Tales
Writer/Director: Jo Ho; Producer: Debbie Crosscup
A young girl’s carefully controlled world shatters when her mentally ill mother is hospitalised and her estranged Grandma comes to stay.

 

The Girls
Writer/Director: Sebastian Godwin; Producer: Hugo Godwin
A late autumn afternoon. Two sisters are playing in the garden when their father returns. As dusk falls the atmosphere darkens.

 

Peter and Ben
Writer/Director: Pinny Grylls; Producer: Victoria Cameron
A short documentary about Peter and Ben - a man and a sheep who 'leave the flock' and form an unconventional friendship.

 

Exit
Director: John Vanderpuije; Producer: Tim Gerken
A man has been imprisoned in his flat. As he desperately searches for a way out he realises that only spiritual liberation will save him.

 

The Object
Director: Leslie Ali; Producer: Isibéal Ballance
A dark comedy about the arrival of a small cubic object in a strange rural community.

 

N.O.R.A.
Director: Amy Engles; Producer: Mark Pinheiro
In this science fiction animation, a strong minded robot, N.O.R.A., is sent on a special mission.

 

Cherries *
Director: Tom Harper; Producer: Lisa Williams
A class of teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teacher’s attempts to question them about the wider world.  But they are about to have a lesson they will never forget and one that will change their lives forever.
Watch it!

 


* Cherries is the second PULSE PLUS short. PULSE PLUS is a more ambitious single award for directors who have previously been funded through the PULSE digital shorts scheme or made a short with similar production values. PULSE PLUS has now been replaced by Digital Nation.

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