Homespun Yarns 2018 announces finalists

Homespun Yarns, the annual short film competition founded by Homespun and Stitch, has announced the finalists for its fifth installment, in partnership with Kodak and Panavision. 

This year, Homespun set a brief inspired by the word 'If' as a starting point for them to interpret into a fully-formed narrative.

The four finalists are as follows:

Steve Moss, a copywriter at Publicis who spends his days, ‘devising cunning ways to make the nation fatter and poorer’!  For the past eighteen months Steve has been working on longer form content with a script editor at the BFI and sees Homespun Yarns as the perfect opportunity use his creativity to make a film without a logo.

Daniel McKee, who graduated from Bournemouth in 2014 with a BA Film Production and has since been working as a filmmaker and visual artist.  His video Mona Lisa Selfie won a Vimeo staff pick and last year he launched the Directors Library – an online platform featuring curated selections of videos.

Stroma Cairns, a London-based director and photographer represented by Prettybird.  With an intimate and honest filming approach Stroma’s British aesthetic comes from a childhood, growing up moving around England and she is drawn to stories revolving around youth and family. 

Matt Wood, Tom Loveless and Billy Stickley, a trio of agency creatives who’ve spent the past seven years expanding on each and every thought they have ever had. 

"As usual we had our work cut out, especially given the ambiguity of the brief, 'If'," says Homespun EP Alice Clarke. "We have four outstanding finalists and we’re looking forward to seeing how their films develop.”

The awards night will take place in October when the films will be screened and judged by the audience, with the overall winner receiving a £500 cash prize.