By:
Carrie Russell
Date::
11 Nov 2011
The Virgin Media Shorts Awards
Last night the Audio Network team attended the Virgin Media Shorts Awards. This is the first year we have been involved with the awards, offering all of the film producers and directors’ who are entering use of our production music library for their shorts, meaning they can have a high quality, multi platform cleared soundtrack – made really simple.
On arrival we were greeted with champagne and canapés before being led into the auditorium for the ceremony – but not before we took the opportunity to walk the red carpet. 
Audio Network loved the mini champagne bottles and popcorn. Predictably this was swiftly polished in true short style in approximately 2 minutes and 20 seconds!
The Awards
This year there was an additional category – the TiVo award, this was along with the People’s Choice Award and the climax of the evening, the Grand Prize; awarding the director of the winning film £30,000 of funding for their next project, along with expert advice and mentoring from both Virgin and the BFI.
The TiVo Award was first up – and one of our favourite films of the evening won – the fantastic ‘Coasting’, a film about two elderly ladies enjoying a brisk walk in the welsh countryside to see one of natures true beauties. We won’t spoil what this beauty is – see it for yourself.
The People’s Choice award was next up. Over 1.4 million people viewed and voted for the movies online and through the Virgin Media Channels. The winner of this was 'Inanimate', a charming piece about an orange alien looking for the one.
Finally John Hurt graced the stage to present the Grand Prize. It really was impossible to call a winner from such great entries. In the end it went to '2.20' – a short about special glasses that give the wearer the ability to view t he mortality rate of those they are looking at (not sure I would fancy a pair of those…). Danny Wallace, the fantastic host of the evening wrapped up and we headed to the dance floor.
Paloma Faith took to the stage for a DJ set – and spoke on a very cool stiletto phone. 
We are very proud to be a part of these awards, helping to support new and emerging talent in the film industry, and we are honoured to be able to give a helping hand for the music production side of these incredibly talented directors and producers endeavours; creating what is hopefully the directors of the future.
Until next year…
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