Screenings so far
Film
London's Best of Borough Awards
2nd
prize & special jury commendation
Bafta, London
September 2011
55th
BFI London Film Festival
London,
United Kingdom
October 2011 (Film Festival)
Bafta
Long-listed
London, United Kingdom
December 2011
5th
British Short Film Festival
Audience
vote - docs
Berlin, Germany
January 2012 (Film
Festival)
NFTS,
Beaconsfield
London,
United Kingdom
January 2012
Charity
Event
Please
see "Sheen Mount fundraiser" in news section.
Richmond, United
Kingdom
February 2012
Lorraine
Bowen's Comfort Zone
An
Arts Council funded installation (film was screened in a cosy living
room set!)
Nightingale
Theatre, Brighton, United Kingdom
February 2012
Lower
East Side Film Festival
New York, USA
March 2012 (Film Festival)
Feast on Film
Monthly short film event
London, UK
March 2012
Clare Valley Film Festival
Clare Valley, Australia
March 2012 (Film Festival)
American
Documentary Festival
Palm Springs, USA
April 2012 (Film Festival)
Palm Springs ShortFest
California, USA
Film Market
No public screening as we're already in a Palm Springs festival! (Above)
(Film Festival)
Athens Film Festival
(Academy accredited)
Ohio, USA
April 2012 (Film Festival)
LA United Film Festival
Los Angeles, USA
(Film Festival)
New York United Film Festival
New York, USA
(Film Festival)
Austin Vince!
Great work on the film. I was at a school in Harrow from 1969-78 and
George was my PE teacher. The entire school did almost zero sport,
instead, just doing gymnastics ALL THE TIME!!!!
Naturally, as
children, we had no idea that this wasn't happening in schools across
the nation. We had a school gymnastics team that destroyed everyone else
at the NATIONAL championships.
Best wishes
Austin Vince
5th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin:
Clipping from Die Tageszeitung, Berlin's daily newspaper.
Walk tall was one of the 9 (11 films screened) films shortlisted for the Audience award. We lost to the animation, "A Morning Stroll" but did win the Doc category!
more info on the News page.
Recent Press:
The Telegraph's David Gritten writes:
Arguably the oldest "star" at this year's London Film Festival is 91-year-old George Weedon, an amiable chap who represented Great Britain as a gymnast at the "austerity Olympics" in 1948.
He's the subject of the 10-minute part-animated documentary Walk Tall, a delightful, instructive film by first-time east London director Kate Sullivan. In it, Weedon extols the virtues of good posture and correct breathing, and shows how everyday domestic objects can be used to improve fitness. (He's less convinced about gyms.)
Weedon will be striding along the red carpet on Monday, when the film is screened. There's talk he may also release a fitness video. The highest praise for Walk Tall? It makes the round-shouldered among us (I plead guilty) throw our shoulders back and sit up straight.
Read all about it hereThe Standard's Louse Jury also wrote some lovely stuff, which you can read here
A lovely second article by Roya Nikkhah can be found here
Really proud of this one - a review of the screening night...please click here
And This and This too.
Nice Mention in the Independant
And Brighton's Argus
Great article in The Richmond and Twickenham Times
And you can find more clippings on Walk Tall's Facebook Page
"What a lovely piece of art - fantastic!"
The British Gymnastics Association
2nd Prize at Film London's 2011 Best of Borough Awards
with a special jury commendation:
55th BFI London Film Festival
Some comments so far:
The young and talented bit is spot on).