The Grierson Awards, UK’s leading documentary film award, has shortlisted Dressed as a Girl for Best Entertaining Documentary at the British Documentary Awards.
Dressed As a Girl is the story of East London’s exciting alternative drag scene that is “occasionally heart-breaking, casually shocking, completely rocking and ceaselessly entertaining.
Director Colin Rothbart spent five years following the principal characters who talk about their dragtastic times and the personal demons that often hide beneath the mascara. Starring Jonny Woo, Scottee, Holestar (WOW contributor), Amber, John Sizzle and Pia Arber, Dressed As a Girl covers not only the highs and lows of this hugely popular club scene but also offers some personal, emotionally honest portraits of six individuals at the heart it. Fundamentally it’s about the nature of friendship, life and even survival against the odds, universal themes that everyone can relate to.
World of Wonder’s Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato and Chris Amos are Co-Executive producers.
We’ll find out if we are nominated on Tuesday 15th September! One step to close to the Oscars!! WHOOOOOOO!
THE SHORTLIST INCLUDES:
Back in Time for Dinner – The1970s; Kim Maddever for Wall to Wall; first shown: BBC Two
Dressed as a Girl; Colin Rothbart for Blue Oyster Pictures; first shown: Flare: London LGBT Film Festival
First Dates – Episode 4; Production Team for Twenty Twenty Productions; first shown: Channel4
Gogglebox Episode 6; Tania Alexander for Studio Lambert; first shown: Channel 4
Life is Toff: Bear Up; Tom Currie, Imogen Willcocks for Oxford Film and Television; first shown: BBC Three
My Granny the Escort; Charlie Russell for Minnow Films; first shown: Channel 4
The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds; Harjeet Chhokar, Nicola Brown for RDF Television; first shown: Channel 4
Warwick Davis’s Big Night; Ursula Macfarlane for Love Productions; first shown: BBC!Two
The Grierson Awards commemorate the pioneering Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson (1898 – 1972), famous for Drifters and Night Mail and the man widely regarded as the father of the documentary.
Established in 1972, the Grierson Awards recognise and celebrate documentaries from Britain and abroad that have made a significant contribution to the genre and that demonstrate quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence.
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