Official Festival Selections and Awards
Brighton Rocks Film Festival
Winner - Best Drama
Winner - Best Editor (Ryan Tian)
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Changing Face International Film Festival
September Monthly Winner - Best Short Film
Annual Nominations - Best Short Film
​Annual Nominations - Best Editing (Ryan Tian)
​Annual Nominations - Best Set Design (Olivia Venables)
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Mindfield Film Festival bi-monthly online season
Winner - Bi Monthly Comp - Nov '18
Best Short Film - Platinum Award
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UK Offline Web Fest
Winner - Best Director (Lucy Joan Barnes)
Nominated - Best Short Film
Nominated - Best Actor (Clark Alexander)
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Top Indie Film Awards
Winner - Best Director (Lucy Joan Barnes)
Nominated - Best Short Film
Nominated - Best Original Idea
Nominated - Best Writing (Nick Thomson)
Nominated - Best Cinematography (Yana Rits)
Nominated - Best Editing (Ryan Tian)
Nominated - Best Sound (Alex Williamson & Richard Coppen)
Nominated - Best Music (Alex Williamson)
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Direct Monthly Online Film Festival - October '18 Edition
Winner - Best Screen Writer of the Month
(Nick Thomson)
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Feel The Reel International Film Festival
Winner - Editor of the Month (Ryan Tian)
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TMFF
Winner - Editor of the Month (Ryan Tian)​
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Beeston Film Festival
Nominated - A Better Place
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Oxford International Short Film Festival
Nominated - Best Edit (Ryan Tian)
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Dublin Independent Film Festival
Nominated - Best Director (Lucy Joan Barnes)
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Overcome Film Festival
Nominated - Best International Film
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Berlin Flash Film Festival
Outstanding Achievement
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Swindon Independent Film Fest @ Swinge Swindon
Finalist
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Eurasia International monthly film festival
Finalist​
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Mental Health Arts and film festival
Semi Finalists​
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London International Motion Picture Awards - L.I.M.P.A
Semi Finalists​
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Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Official Selection
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UK Monthly film Festival
Official Selection
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IOFF - Independent Online Film Festival
Official Selection
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Los Angeles FEEDBACK Female Film festival
Official Selection
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REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium
Official Selection
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Lift-Off Sessions October 2018
Official Selection​
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Ficsam Festival
Official Selection
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Red Wood Film Festival
Official Selection
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English Riviera Film Festival
Special Mention
Screenings, festivals & events
FWOAN Interviews, news and media
Read Director Lucy and Producer Ali's interview with Matthew Toffolo
FEEDBACK
Keith - Mental Health News Hub
I have a friend who has bad OCD. Now I have a better understanding of how his obsessions affect him. Really good informative film. Very informative
Changing Face IFF
We loved your film and are extremely honoured to have such high quality work as part of our festival.
Chris Baier - Producer.
UNSTUCK: an OCD kids movie
Loved it! Wonderful!
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I don’t have OCD, but I’m always trying to look for context and examples, to help me understand how my daughter is processing things and how OCD might be disrupting/interfering in her brain. The various visual treatments of Marty’s thoughts, in the multitude of ways that you showed them, did a fabulous job to help me. Thank you for that!
It’s really hard, perhaps impossible, for those with OCD to shut off the thoughts. That’s so clear in the film. Well done.
Mindfield Film
Festival - Albuquerque
For Want of a Nail is a great short film. The Writing is awesome and the directing brought it together quite nicely. The Acting was very natural and I could feel the emotions in the characters. The Cinematography was very well done. The Editing was smooth and true to the genre. The Sound Design / Score was perfect for the genre as well. The Visual FX were very well done throughout. I loved it!