BAFTA organisers released the majority of the 2021 short film nominees online this weekend, ahead of the 74th edition of the awards ceremony.
The Nigerian duo made the cut for the category with their 2020 short film titled ‘Lizard’ – the story of an 8-year-old girl with an ability to sense danger gets ejected from Sunday school service. She unwittingly witnesses the underbelly in and around a Mega Church in Lagos.
Lizard will slug it out with four other short films in the category as BAFTA, for the first time, turned straight to YouTube to release the nominated films online for free though not all of the contenders have been made available, presumably due to rights reasons, but all but two can now be streamed.
The winners of the category would be unveiled on Saturday 10th April at 8pm, when the BAFTA hosts its first of two-part celebration.
See the nomination list for the short film/animation category below:
BRITISH SHORT FILM
EYELASH – Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
LIZARD – Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
LUCKY BREAK – John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
MISS CURVY – Ghada Eldemellawy
THE PRESENT – Farah Nabulsi
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT – Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf
THE SONG OF A LOST BOY – Daniel Quirke, Jamie MacDonald, Brid Arnstein
THE FIRE NEXT TIME – Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
