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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
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. Read more …
