CILECT Prize
CILECT Congress 2026
27-31 October 2026
Death's Peak
Desperate for connection, David digs up his brother’s corpse. With their trusty red wagon, they ascend a treacherous mountain in pursuit of their childhood dream.
National Film and Television School (NFTS)
Length: 9'
Screenwriter: Tracey Murray
Director: Willy Fair
Producer: Louis Jousselme
Animation: Willy Fair
DOP: Jonathan Le Grice
Sound: Nicholas Smyth
Editor: Clare Maleeny
Production Designer: Claudia Morles Sosa
Willy Fair
Willy Fair is an animation director based in London. He received a Master’s in Animation Direction from the National Film and Television School. His graduate film “Death’s Peak” played at over 35 festivals, won two Royal Television Society Awards, was long listed for a BAFTA, and received Best British Animation at Foyle Film Festival. Before directing, Willy worked as a stop motion animator and fabricator in Los Angeles on projects for Disney, HBO, and Netflix. He uses the techniques he learned while in the industry to better push emotional boundaries within his personal work.
Tracey Murray
Tracey is a screenwriting graduate of the National Film and Television School, and received the Most Promising Student Award 2025. She began her career as a Development Assistant at Warp Films before producing campaigns for Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime. Her graduation films have premiered at Tribeca, BFI London Film Festival, AFI Fest and Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is a fellow of OKRE’s Laughing Matters
Louis Jousselme
Louis Jousselme is a London-based film producer and founder of Vega Lyre Films with Michal Wasilewski. A Royal Television Society (RTS) Award winner and a long-listed BAFTA 2026 producer, his work has won at Slamdance Film Festival and received nominations at the Grierson Documentary Awards, Energa Camerimage and the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival. A graduate of the National Film and Television School (NFTS), he holds an MBA, including a dual degree in Film Financing from UCLA, and a BA in Economics. He was awarded the James Walker Award by Lee & Thompson, recognising him as "a standout emerging UK producer".
Welcome Home Freckles
After four years apart, a daughter returns home to confront the unresolved family conflicts and deep-rooted domestic violence that plagued her childhood. She discovers the generational cycle of abuse and realises that only she can break it.
National Film and Television School (NFTS)
Length: 27'
Screenwriter: n/a
Director: Huiju Park
Producer: Huiju Park
Animation: N/A
DOP: Benjamin Kodboel
Sound: Levi Giger
Editor: Clare Maleeny
Production Designer: n/a
Huiju Park
Huiju Park is a documentary filmmaker based in London, originally from South Korea, whose work explores the intersection of personal experience and broader social issues. Her films are inspired by her intimate relationship with the world around her and strongly emphasise feminism. After years of making personal documentaries that delved into topics like women’s health, sexual trauma, and domestic violence, she turned her lens outward, extending the courage and resilience she found in her own experiences to empower new voices and perspectives. Her recent film Welcome Home Freckles has garnered international attention and has been screened and awarded at multiple international film festivals, including at the BAFTA Film Awards, Grierson British Documentary Awards, Visions du Réel, SXSW Film Festival, and AFI Fest.
WALUD
2014: Amuna and her husband Aziz, an ISIS fighter, live as shepherds in the rural Syrian desert. When he takes a very young, European ISIS convert as his second wife, Amuna's everyday life is thrown into turmoil.
National Film and Television School (NFTS)
Length: 26'
Screenwriter: Daood Alabdulaa & Louise Zenker
Director: Daood Alabdulaa & Louise Zenker
Producer: Joyce Abou-Zeid & Liam Wölfer
Animation: Valentin Dittlmann
DOP: Henri Nunn
Sound: Xavier Fleming
Editor: Jonas Riedinger
Production Designer: Mohammad Issa Saleh
Daood Alabdulaa & Louise Zenker
Daood Alabdulaa was born in the Syrian desert in 1994 to an indigenous Bedouin family, directed plays in Aleppo, and had to flee to Germany in 2014 due to his political protest during the civil war in Syria. He has been studying directing at the HFF, Munich, since 2020 and devotes most of his films to social issues focusing on the Middle East. He also works as a festival programmer, hoping to make the voices and stories of BIPOC filmmakers more visible at film festivals.
Louise Zenker (b.1994) studied communication sciences in Bamberg and since 2021 feature film directing at the HFF, Munich. Her first short film dealt with the topic of fraternities and masculinity and screened at several German short film festivals. In 2022 and 2023 she produced and co-wrote the documentary "Fata Morgana" with Daood Alabdulaa which is currently being shown successfully at various international festivals. She believes in the positive power of storytelling and hopes to bring characters to the screen that get overlooked a lot and / or touch on feminist and political topics.