Tribeca Film Festival announces winners of global film competition

Academy Award winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher today announced the four winners of the second annual Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series: Film Competition to find rising stars in film.

The four winning films were selected by a panel of global imaginative heavy weights including:

• Academy Award winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher
• Academy Award winning actor, Adrien Brody
• Screenwriter and film director, Lucy Mulloy
• Screenwriter, Naomi Foner
• Actor, Peter Facinelli
• Senior curator at Vimeo, Sam Morrill

Nine films were shortlisted for their originality and imagination and from these four winners selected:

• Anthony Khaseria, a screenwriter from London, for his film ‘Reflections’
• Maite Fernandez, a bookseller and comedian from Spain, for her film ‘Grafitti Area’
• Chris Cornwell, a screenwriter from London, for his film ‘Exit Log’
• Kiara Jones, a film student from the U.S., for her film ‘The Other Side of the Game’

The four winners will now participate in producing and directing their own individual films, which will be premiered in early 2014. To see the winners and hear more about their films and experiences during the production process visit www.imaginationseries.com/vote.

Starting today, Bombay Sapphire is inviting members of the public to vote for a fifth film to be made. By visiting imaginationseries.com/vote a vote can be cast, with the winning film announced on 14 November 2013.

All those who vote are entered for a chance to win a VIP trip to New York to join Geoffrey Fletcher at the premiere of the winning films.