BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Award: Tilda Swinton And Vogue Editor Edward Enninful Set Winners

Zac Ntim
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The BFI today announced the winners of its second annual Filmmaker Awards, hosted in partnership with French fashion house Chanel.

The award, which comes with a £20,000 prize ($22,000), was awarded to three artists working across film and moving image practices: writer/director Ella Glendining (director and cast of Is There Anybody Out There?), writer/director/producer Savanah Leaf (writer/director of Earth Mama), and producer Nadira Murray (Winners).

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The winners of the 2023 awards were selected by this year’s jury: Tilda Swinton, BFI Fellow and Global Chanel Ambassador, Edward Enninful OBE, Editor-in-Chief, British Vogue and European Editorial Director, Vogue; Marie-Louise Khondji, producer and founder of Le Cinéma Club and Ben Roberts, BFI Chief Executive.

“We were presented with an incredibly strong and diverse shortlist, indicative of the exceptional quality of work being produced by early career UK filmmakers at the moment,” the Jury said. “It was a very difficult decision, but ultimately, we were unanimous in selecting these three talented filmmakers whose early work shows enormous potential. We were also thrilled to have selected three women, each bringing a different perspective to their work.”

The jury’s decision period covered the filmmaker’s body of work and the strength of their application. Each nominee had to have a work released or showcased between 1 January 2022-30 June 2023 to be eligible.

The BFI and Chanel award was launched last year, with the goal of celebrating underrepresented voices, with at least. One of the awards is specifically committed to a filmmaker identifying as female/non-binary. All projects that rendered the filmmaker eligible had to meet the BFI Diversity Standards.

The winners of the inaugural 2022 Filmmaker Awards were: artist/director Baff Akoto (producer of The Queen of Glory); writer/director Kathryn Ferguson (Nothing Compares); director/producer Sam Firth (The Wolf Suit) and director/producer Erfan Saadati (Child of Empire).

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