October in Cardiff, Wales brings with it the third Iris Prize Festival, a feast of LGBT films, both short and feature-length

October brings with it the third Iris Prize Festival, a feast of LGBT films, both short and feature-length. Chapter Arts Centre and Cineworld will show the films between 7th and 10th October.

Thirty shorts will compete for the coveted prize of £25,000; the best feature will be awarded £1000, donated by Martin Briggs and the best British short will win a training award of £1000 for its director, donated by the Welsh Screen Academy.


The thirty shorts come from two sources. Fifteen were nominated by partner festivals including, for the first time, Chicago and Melbourne.

The remaining fifteen were selected by the pre-jury from the seventy submitted by individuals.

The pre-jury took six days to complete this enjoyable task. They were Berwyn Rowlands ( Festivals Company ), James Nee ( Festivals Company ), Lisa Nesbitt ( BAFTA Cymru ) and myself (Philip pictured far left.)

Ten films practically chose themselves, the remaining five were the result of much discussion.

For example, were they definitely within the remits of this particular festival? Were some superb scenes sufficent to justify the inclusion of the film as a whole? We ended up with fifteen films worthy to be shown side by side with the festivals' nominees.

Read the entire article here:

Pre-selection Jury member looks forward to Iris 09. Iris Prize

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