Sammy Paul, Elliot Gough and Tom Ridgewell are amongst the creators to take home awards at the third annual Buffer Festival Gala Award Show.
The awards show, which took place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Canada on 6 October, saw numerous online content creators in attendance. It followed Buffer Festival’s seventh-annual run, where numerous films and videos premiered.
As with previous years, winners were decided through a voting system, wherein those attending the festival could vote for which aspect of each video stood out to them the most, before giving each an overall rating of between zero and 10.
Congratulations to Sammy Paul for winning the Excellence in Performance award for the film “Bicycle.” pic.twitter.com/f3X05lhGAY
— Buffer Festival 📽️ (@BufferFestival) October 7, 2019
Numerous UK YouTubers were present at the awards show, with Sammy Paul, Tom Ridgewell and Elliot Gough taking home accolades. Elliot took home the Excellence in Music, Sound, Score award for his animated short, Hiccups, while Sammy’s short film, Bicycle, won for Excellence in Performance. Tom was presented with the Festival Honour award for his comedy sketch, Bible Time.
The award for Excellence in Music, Sound, & Score goes to Elliot Gough for “Hiccups.” pic.twitter.com/zRept7rcMd
— Buffer Festival 📽️ (@BufferFestival) October 7, 2019
A total of nine awards were handed out overall. Along with the aforementioned winners, Iz Harris took home the award for Excellence in Inspiration for her spoken word piece, I Remember, while Evelyn Ngugi won Excellence in Comedy for her sketch, Hello, Tim.
Holy shit. I'm currently experiencing an adrenaline crash because getting on stage to accept an award in front of so many brilliant filmmakers and storytellers was extremely intense. Or maybe I'm just hungover. Probably both. https://t.co/UQuFs9SDyh
— Thomas ‘TomSka’ Ridgewell (@thetomska) October 7, 2019
The full list of award winners is as follows:
- Festival Honour – Tom Ridgewell
- Canadian of Excellence – Lizzie Pierce
- Excellence in Cinematography – Émile Roy
- Excellence in Music, Sound, Score – Elliot Gough
- Excellence in Comedy – Evelyn Ngugi
- Excellence in Performance – Sammy Paul
- Excellence in Production – Chris Smith and Jack De Sena
- Excellence in Inspiration – Iz Harris
- Excellence in Writing – Julie Nolke
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