{"id":933,"date":"2025-06-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/?p=933"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:09:34","slug":"film-finalist-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/2025\/06\/18\/film-finalist-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Finalist Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night a group of final year Film students, joined by members of Film staff, celebrated the end of the academic year by watching their Creative Dissertation short film projects at the Exeter Phoenix.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These projects covered a wide range of styles and content, including a comedic fake news progamme, a narrative-driven new musical, a romance gone wrong, and many others.&nbsp;<br><br>The films are all submitted for the Paddon Prize, recognising the best piece of creative filmmaking on the undergraduate Film programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the prize was awarded to Ellis Quinn and his fantastic short film\u00a0<em>HELLHOUND<\/em>, which follows a woman and her belief in being\u00a0demonically\u00a0possessed, after being attacked by the titular beast.\u00a0<br>You can access and watch his film through this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3ZLMqp4b0EE&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJ.G.Primrose%40exeter.ac.uk%7C96853e85da6a4afd59fb08ddc3a4ea08%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638881835299354254%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=p5CZmyMZh53HYZZyuL237t2luc8EWbnS8ICZSVaAQk4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">HELLHOUND | Short Body Horror Student Film [AWARD WINNING]<\/a><br><em><strong>Content Warnings<\/strong>: Blood\/Gore, Body Horror, Mental Illness, Illness, Vomit, Disordered Eating, Distressing Scenes and Religious Psychosis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massive congratulations to everyone on their creative dissertation projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/369\/2025\/07\/EllisQuinn-DavidSalas-PaddonAward2025-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Ellis Quinn receiving the Paddon Prize certificate from David Salas\" class=\"wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/369\/2025\/07\/EllisQuinn-DavidSalas-PaddonAward2025-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/369\/2025\/07\/EllisQuinn-DavidSalas-PaddonAward2025-1024x812.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/369\/2025\/07\/EllisQuinn-DavidSalas-PaddonAward2025-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cdfpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/369\/2025\/07\/EllisQuinn-DavidSalas-PaddonAward2025.jpg 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ellis Quinn receiving the Paddon Prize certificate from David Salas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a group of final year Film students, joined by members of Film staff, celebrated the end of the academic year by watching their Creative Dissertation short film projects at the Exeter Phoenix.&nbsp; These projects covered a wide range of styles and content, including a comedic fake news progamme, a narrative-driven new musical, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[25],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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