Official Festival Selections and Awards
Brighton Rocks Film Festival
Winner - Best Drama
Winner - Best Editor (Ryan Tian)
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)
Mindfield Film Festival bi-monthly online season
Winner - Bi Monthly Comp - Nov '18
Best Short Film - Platinum Award
UK Offline Web Fest
Winner - Best Director (Lucy Joan Barnes)
Nominated - Best Short Film
Nominated - Best Actor (Clark Alexander)
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)
Direct Monthly Online Film Festival - October '18 Edition
Winner - Best Screen Writer of the Month
(Nick Thomson)
Feel The Reel International Film Festival
Winner - Editor of the Month (Ryan Tian)
TMFF
Winner - Editor of the Month (Ryan Tian)
Beeston Film Festival
Nominated - A Better Place
Oxford International Short Film Festival
Nominated - Best Edit (Ryan Tian)
Dublin Independent Film Festival
Nominated - Best Director (Lucy Joan Barnes)
Overcome Film Festival
Nominated - Best International Film
Berlin Flash Film Festival
Outstanding Achievement
Swindon Independent Film Fest @ Swinge Swindon
Finalist
Eurasia International monthly film festival
Finalist
Mental Health Arts and film festival
Semi Finalists
London International Motion Picture Awards - L.I.M.P.A
Semi Finalists
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Official Selection
UK Monthly film Festival
Official Selection
IOFF - Independent Online Film Festival
Official Selection
Los Angeles FEEDBACK Female Film festival
Official Selection
REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium
Official Selection
Lift-Off Sessions October 2018
Official Selection
Ficsam Festival
Official Selection
Red Wood Film Festival
Official Selection
English Riviera Film Festival
Special Mention
Screenings, festivals & events
The Indie Hour
The filmmakers have not romanticised OCD or mental illness in anyway. Instead the team deliver a quirky and relatable character and plot line that highlight the realities of living with OCD.
Annie Vincent
Intimate and insightful, For Want of a Nail, is a powerful short film shining a light on OCD and its psychological impact.
The work done behind the scenes for 'For Want of a Nail' in production and pre-production has combined to produce a tactful and thoughtful piece of film on a topic rarely explored so sensitively...
Indie Shorts Mag Team
The paradoxes of thinking you rule the world when every little slip makes you swirl out of control is captured beautifully by Clark Alexander in his performance. Director Lucy Joan Barnes juxtaposes Marty’s past and present in smooth transitional shots. The screenplay (Nick Thomson) littered with voice-overs, makes it easy even for a layman to understand the complexities of an OCD inflicted individual’s world. As the title of the film aptly suggests; sometimes even seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave consequences, especially for someone suffering from OCD...
Richard Propes
From beginning to end, it is obvious that the entire crew for For Want of a Nail is passionate about an accurate, honest portrayal of OCD and the daily ins and outs of life with the challenging mental illness.
An intelligent, respectful film that manages to tell its truth while still entertaining along the way.
The film is just beginning its festival journey and should have no problem finding a home on the indie fest circuit....
Olivia Bamba
We have had such a huge amount of support from this team over the last year and we are incredibly grateful for that - so thank you every member of the cast and crew for supporting OCD Action's work, for including us in the creation of this wonderful production, and for creating a film that does a great job of portraying the effects OCD can have on a persons life...
Critique Review
The tone shift which occurs throughout the movie is something that is very interesting, with a brisk and glib narrative coming into conflict with the sad truths that are gradually being revealed underneath it.
At the beginning of the film, this play
tone is much more prevalent, but by the end the melancholy of what we’ve seen has taken over and isolated Marty’s non-stop chatter within the mood, but in the same way the he becomes isolated as a character...
FWOAN on
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!
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!