Delta Film Award

The Delta Film Award was presented annually to the best amateur film screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England from 1990. The awards relaunched for the 2022 festival as a new short film competition, including a best-in-festival award.

Now plural, the Delta Film Awards are named in honour of the Delta group of amateur filmmakers whose efforts enlivened 1960s British science fiction conventions. Members included Tony Edwards and the late Harry Nadler, founding members along with Gil Lane-Young of the Society of Fantastic Films, which oversaw the Manchester festival.

The Delta Film Award celebrated significant achievement by low-budget directors.

The award was relaunched for the 2022 festival with a new short film competition following the death of Gil Lane-Young, with a committee of festivalgoers agreeing to update the annua
Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester
while retaining the event's unique atmosphere and intimate feel. The festival gained a new website and revamped social media presence.

For the first time in 2022, Delta film submissions are via th
Film Freeway website
Awards will be given in three categories: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. No film submitted can be longer than 20 minutes. The award continues to attract international interest.

A new best-in-festival award was also announced in honour of the late British horror film director Norman J. Warren, a regular attendee at the Manchester festival. Entries are being overseen by Darrell Buxton, with the chair of judges for 2022 named as Warren's long-time friend and collaborator, screenwriter and critic David McGillivray.

Previous Delta judges have included Warren himself, freelance journalist Steve Green (also awards administrator for many years), film journalists M J Simpson, Calum Waddell, Darrell Buxton and Tris Thompson, horror author Stephen Gallagher, former '' Critical Wave'' reviewer Ray Holloway and actor David Hess.

The following information was researched from various sources by Steve Green and George Houston and it is, to their knowledge, as accurate as the sources suggest:
* Recipient of the 1990 Delta Film Award - Ian Simpson (UK) for ''Mean Time''.
* Recipient of the 1991 Delta Film Award - Ian Simpson (UK) for ''Time Flies''.
* Recipient of the 1992 Delta Film Award - Ian Simpson (UK) for ''The Telephone People''.
* Recipient of the 1993 Delta Film Award - Andrew Garrison (USA) for ''Night Ride''.
* Recipient of the 1994 Delta Film Award - Simon J Frith (UK) for ''Deep In the Woods''.
* The 1995 Delta Film Award was awarded to joint winners, one of which was Blast Films (UK) for ''I Was a Fifty Foot Führer''.
* Recipient of the 1996 Delta Film Award - Andrew Muscroft (UK) for ''The Lover''.
* Recipients of the 1997 Delta Film Award - Keith Wright and Rob Richardson (UK) for ''The Legend of Roy.''
* Recipient of the 1998 Delta Film Award - Shane Hannefey (USA) for ''The Gift''.
* Recipient of the 1999 Delta Film Award - Ben Campbell (UK) for ''Abduction''.
* Recipients of the 2000 Delta Film Award - Nova Jacobs and John Sinclair (USA) for ''Schrödinger's Cat''.
* Recipient of the 2001 Delta Film Award - Bryn Jones (Canada) for ''Jesabelle''.
* Recipient of the 2002 Delta Film Award - Al Lougher (UK) for ''I Am Peter Cushing''.
* Recipient of the 2003 Delta Film Award - Robin Burke (UK) for ''Tilted Love''.
* Recipient of the 2004 Delta Film Award - Brett Harvey for ''The Curse''.
* Recipient of the 2005 Delta Film Award - Ross Shepherd (UK) for ''Kingdom of Shadows''.
* Recipient of the 2006 Delta Film Award - Karl Holt (UK) for ''Eddie Loves You''.
* Recipient of the 2007 Delta Film Award - Jean Luc Baillet (France) for ''Contretemps''.http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/festival_of_fantastic_films_2007.html Report by Darrell Buxton on the 18th Festival of Fantastic Films, including references to the 2007 Delta Film Award
* Recipient of the 2008 Delta Film Award - Matt Bloom (UK) for ''Small Things''.
* Recipient of the 2009 Delta Film Award - Kyle Stephens (USA) for ''McDonough''.
* Recipient of the 2010 Delta Film Award - Lucas Martell (USA) for ''Pigeon: Impossible''.
* Recipient of the 2011 Delta Film Award - Damian McCarthy (Eire) for ''Hatch''.
* Recipient of the 2012 Delta Film Award - Zoe Berriatúa (Spain) for ''Quedaté Conmigo''.
* Recipient of the 2013 Delta Film Award - Liam Engle (France) for ''Mecs Meufs''.

References

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External links

Festival of Fantastic Films website



2022 submissions via Film Freeway

British film awards