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BOUNDS FILMS

A multi-award-winning film production company based in Yorkshire, Bounds Films creates short films that have a fresh, imaginative filmmaking style with one foot in the past. The father and daughter production team includes Ava Bounds, a director and Method-trained actor Bryan Bounds, an award-winning US-born screenwriter, director, producer and acting teacher. Bounds Films has won numerous awards at major worldwide film festivals in the categories of best Student Short, Cinematography and Storytelling.  

HELLO FRISCO
2021

Why was the baby left abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its precious life? This playful, surreal road movie pits four teens against the elements in a race against time.

AWARDS

WINNER 

  • Best Cinematography: Culver Film Festival, USA 

  • Best Student Short:: Couch Film Festival, USA

  • Best Youth Film: Canberra Film Festival (Australia)

  • Best Student Film: Skiptown Playhouse Festival (USA)

  • Best Student Film: Tryon Film Festival (USA)

  • Best Student Film: Gimpo Flower Festival (S. Korea)

  • Best Youth Film: Stone Flower Festival (Russia)

  • Best Student Film: Couch Film Festival (USA)

BETH
2020

TRAILER

A true story of one asylum patient's struggle as her focus on returning home does not go as she planned. A period piece that highlights the travesty of those resting in unmarked graves from barbaric treatments.

AWARDS

WINNER

  • IMDb New Filmmaker Award 2021

  • Best International Film: All American High School Festival (USA)

  • Best Youth Narrative: Indy Shorts (Academy Award Qualifying - USA)

  • Best International Film: Ireland's Young Filmmaker Festival

  • Best Student Film: Short Shot Fest (Russia)

  • Best Youth Film: Mikro FAF Festival (Serbia)

  • Jury Award: Deep in the Heart Film Festival (USA)

  • Jury Award: McGuffin Film Festival (Russia)

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NOMINATED

  • Best Filmmaker under 22: Fisheye Film Festival (UK) 

  • Best Storytelling: Maine Student Film Festival (USA) 

  • Best Acting: Maine Student Film Festival (USA) 

 

In an idyllic village, a young girl is revealed to exert a sinister level of control upon her fellow villagers and animals. 

AWARDS

WINNER 

  • Best Youth Film: Bolton International Festival (BAFTA/BIFA Qualifying, UK) 

  • Best Young Filmmaker, Teen Film Festival (USA) 

  • Best Short Film, Noe Valley Film Festival (USA) 

  • Best Short Film: Prague Student Film Festival (Czech Republic) 

  • Best Short Film, Kinofilm (Russia) 

PLAYERS
2020

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