Edinburgh Film Festival Winners: ‘A Cat Called Dom’ Takes Inaugural Powell And Pressburger Award For Best Film
deadline.comScottish filmmakers Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson clinched the Powell And Pressburger Award for best film, the new main competition award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, with their debut feature A Cat Called Dom.Anderson and Henderson both star in and co-direct the indie flick, which follows how Anderson deals with the grief of his mother’s cancer.
In the film, the duo work on their animations and face the frustrations of trying to make this documentary. Whilst alone, Will turns to DOM, the animated cat that lives on his laptop screen.The jury, comprised of president Gaylene Gould, producer Rosie Crerar, and author Sarah Winman, cited the “special collaboration” between the legendary British filmmakers Powell and Pressburger which they said “was grounded in deeply human stories and the belief that life can be magic” when handing the award to A Cat Called Dom.Accepting the honor, Anderson and Henderson said: “To screen our first feature at EIFF was an honor… but to take away the first Powell & Pressburger Award is just so special.
A Cat Called Dom is a film about embracing failure… after EIFF it now feels much more like a success.”In other main competition awards, Edinburgh’s Audience Award, voted by the viewing public, was won by Hassan Nazer’s film Winners.Produced by Nadira Murray and Paul Welsh, Winners is set in a deprived area of a small Iranian town where children are required to work to help support their families.
Nine-year-old Yahya is one such child, his little hands scouring through massive piles of junk in search of hidden treasures.
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