News is now through on the shortlisted candidates chosen for presentation to the Orange FilmFour Prize for Short Film jury!

The organisers of the prize have selected twelve from the 1676 scripts entered into the competition. These twelve projects were presented to the jury on 21 January 2002.

The twelve shortlisted entries are as follows:

ENTRANT	SCRIPT
Mat Cottam	A Container
Zadoc Nava	Killing Time
Jonathan Soper and Billy O'Brien	The Fishmonger
Patrik Bergh	Veronique
Brian Baderman and Ron Redel	Key
Richard Jones and Daniel Booth	Keep On
Faye Gilbert and Rachel Shadick	Hard Little Man
Murilo Pasta	The Best Is Yet To Come
Ed Sayers and Rebecca West	Goldfish
Toa Stappard and Tristram Pye	Euston Road
Jeff Povey	Blowing It
Miranda Bowen	Stagnate

All twelve have been interviewed by the jury but only only six will get the chance to make their film with FilmFour. Now it's down to the jury to make some dreams come true. Good luck to them all!

So, just who is on the jury selecting the finalists for the inaugural Orange FilmFour Prize For Short Film?

The jury comprises industry seniors, from FilmFour, Channel 4 and Orange, as well as amazing individuals from the worlds of art, broadcasting and film.

We proudly present this year's jury line-up:

First up is Kathy Burke, one of our great British actresses, who has starred in films as diverse as Elizabeth, Kevin And Perry Go Large and Nil By Mouth, as well as giving a star comic turn in TV¹s Gimme Gimme Gimme. Next is writer and actor Ayub Khan-Din, writer of hugely successful British comedy East Is East, followed by the extraordinary, controversial artist Tracey Emin, Turner prize nominee and bringer of notoriety to the British art scene. Mark Kermode is also in the line-up, an erudite broadcaster and journalist, who brings his unique style and passion about movies to the screen and radio. Our next juror is Michael Winterbottom, the truly talented British director whose star is continually on the rise; director of, to name a few: Welcome To Sarajevo, Jude, Wonderland and soon to be released 24 Hour Party People.

To round off the jury we have Kate Ogborn, executive producer of the six chosen short films, who has a long history in production of short films, and who also recently produced Carine Adler¹s film, Under The Skin. Alex Finlay is Programme Executive at Channel 4 and is responsible for the C4 programme to be transmitted in the summer that will show the six completed films. Gina Salter is Head of Film & Fiction at Orange in its Media Department and responsible for Orange¹s contribution to this prize.

And finally, the Chairman of the Jury is Robin Gutch, Head of FilmFour Lab. Robin was previously Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 for Independent Film & Video and set up the Lab at FilmFour in 1999.

EXTRA! The Observer newspaper will be running a feature on the prize on Sunday 27 January, with news of the winners, interviews with the jury and so on. Worth a look to keep up with the latest...

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