| Writer-Director Graham Higgins (IMDb) won the Best New Talent Award at the Merseyside Arts & Entertainment Awards for his short film Pride, a comedy about a youth who fools his parents into thinking he's a merchant banker while working as a lavatory attendant. Pride was funded by the National Lottery and premiered at the 40th London Film Festival. It was then released theatrically through Metro Tartan supporting Love and Other Catastrophes, toured cinemas supporting The Full Monty and was broadcast on Channel Four. |
| His other short films include Borborygmus, hailed by the Leeds Film Festival as "a terrific no-budget comedy" and screened at numerous festivals and cinemas internationally; Drought, funded by the North West Arts Board, and screened by BAFTA and at festivals including Kinofilm, Manchester; and the Docklands-set half-hour drama Rachel's Confidence, screened in the Best of British section at the BBC British Short Film Festival (see filmography). |