The Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War.  Sponsored by Prime Focus

Red Letter (2007/08) A drama about the French resistance during the Second World War. Directed and written by Edilberto Restino and produced by Christianne van Wijk (BA Filmmaking, Brighton Film School).  10mins

The Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary
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The Things They Carried (2009) A documentary about the good luck charms carried by military servicemen into battle.  Written and directed by Liberty Smith, produced by Liberty Smith and Ronan Glynn. (FDA Media Practise, London College of Communications).  10mins

Winner of the Audience Poll
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Surviving History (2009) A documentary exploring the imprint of the heritage of Jewish life in Vilnius, Lithuania, a city where most of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust.  Directed by Jesse and Daniel Quinones and produced by Shivaun Wolfson and Frances Tay.  28mins

These films will be shown in one 48-minute programme at 2.00pm, 3.00pm and 4.00pm from Saturday 2 January to Sunday 10 January 2010. 

The runners up in the two judged categories were as follows:

The Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary

Second 
Pseudonym Jackal (2009)  A documentary about the 'Silent Dark Ones', Polish soldiers trained in Britain during the Second World War who were then parachuted into occupied Poland to aid the Polish underground movement. Made by Jakub Jedrzejewski, while studying for a BSc (Hons) in Film Production Technology at Staffordshire University. 30mins

Third place
Remembrance (2008) Every year the Ranelagh School holds a remembrance day service during which the names of old boys who died during the two World Wars and the Falklands War are read out.  This documentary tells the story of three of those ‘old boys’, all pilots, who were killed during the Great War. Made by Louise Robertson and staff and scholars at the school.  8mins

The Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War

Second
(Waiting for you and) England to Return (2009)  An animated film reflecting on the impact of the Second World War on a rural English village. Made in response to the Museum’s 1939 Outbreak Exhibition,  and to accompany the song of the same name, which appears on the album ‘A Victory for Common Sense’ by the band Stackridge.  Made by the amateur filmmaker Stuart Taylor. 4mins

Third 
A Corner of a Foreign Field (2009) A drama set in the trenches of the First World War. The film was made by a team of filmmakers of school age. Directed and written by Robin Harvey.  5mins