B3 Festival 2023
Awards and winners
BEST SHORT FILM
Maureen O'Connell - "Haven"
A lonely sheep farmer in her 60's, Carmel, and a Mothers and Baby's Home Survivor, forms an unlikely friendship with a young teenage Somalian girl, Tanaka, living in the local refugee centre in the village.
BEST EMERGING TALENT
Federico Zurani - "Tiny Creatures"
Tiny Creatures is an ongoing project that explores the possibilities of using a video game environment as an alternative narrative tool.
BEST VR EXPERIENCE
Cameron Kostopoulus - "Body of Mine"
"Body of Mine VR" places you into the body of another gender for an exploration of gender dysphoria and trans identity.
ROTRAUT PAPE INSPIRATION AWARD
Milena Bühring, Klara Kirsch, Lisa Kaschubat - "Ectoriders"
The experimental short film "Ectoriders" revolves around Mimi, Kay and Yv, who find themselves in a futuristic game show.
BEST IMMERSIVE AND TIME BASED ART
Evond Blake "Azurite Fielding"
'Azurite Fielding' is a trans-dimensional, audio-visual journey performed in real-time that explores metaphysical realms that lie outside of our temporal reality.
BEST FEATURE FILM
Alice Troughton "The Lesson"
Liam, an aspiring young author, hungry for success and recognition, takes a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol, renowned author J.M. Sinclair.
B3 HONORARY AWARD FOR TIME BASED ART
Daniel Canogar
Born in Madrid (1964) to a Spanish father and an American mother, Daniel Canogar’s life and career have bridged between Spain and the U.S. Photography was his earliest medium of choice.
B3 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Sir Stephen Frears
Frears' work is characterised by a wide variety of styles, themes and genres. After initially working in television, he turned to cinema in the mid-1980s. His break-through on the big screen was in 1984 with MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
