With the judging panel choosing from some of the cream of independent cinema’s shorts, documentaries and animation from over 50 countries, the line up includes UK and European premieres, a host of Oscar nominees (and this year’s winner) and familiar faces ranging from Jane Fonda to Oscar Isaac!

The event opens with our traditional industry networking event at 6.30pm on Friday 26 May and runs until the evening of Sunday 28 May when we’ll be announcing the winners of the big awards throughout the festival. Anyone wishing to attend the networking event should email [email protected] to be added to the attendee list (as numbers are strictly limited).

To see the full programme go to www.satisfiedeye.com/tickets

The festival trailer giving a taster of what’s in store this year can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_L0f-_MJ8

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Set in Epsom, made in Epsom and called (you guessed it!) “Epsom” this series intended for online and festival distribution is a completely unique collaboration which brings together industry professionals, those just starting out in the industry and local educational facilities – as well as local people who want to get involved in a thrilling creative project.

The first two episodes will film back to back at the end of February/beginning of March 2023 and we’ll be looking for as many local people as possible to get involved, from crew to background artists (we’ll need around 100!) With the festival renowned for having one of the most consistently high quality programmes, the benchmark is high and this is intended to be something that shows the very best of the borough and sits proudly within the rest of our films.

For further information or to get involved message [email protected]

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It’s been a challenging time for film festivals and the industry as a whole, so it’s with great excitement that we can confirm that the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival returns in 2023.

With a number of delays in the completion of our new shiny venue at Picturehouse Epsom, we’ve had plenty of opportunities to look at how to improve and refine the festival experience as we enter our 4th season. SEIFF continues to be an in-person event and is looking forward to welcoming audiences new and old.

We’ll be returning with a bang from 19-21 May 2023 and while there will be all the favourites, like our People’s Choice screenings and red carpet awards ceremony, there will be some new exciting editions. Our move from an autumn to spring event will be a permanent change, allowing us to include more outdoor events (and hopefully seeing some sunshine!)

Our judging panel are currently screening all of this year’s submissions, with our programme due for announcement in February/May, so watch this space for further information on what you can expect at SEIFF 4.

If you would like to get involved in the festival in any capacity, contact the Artistic Director at [email protected]

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Despite the extra obstacles provided by the pandemic, we screened more films, more award winners, from more countries – with more sold out events than ever before.

One of the prime objectives of SEIFF is to introduce the incredible world of independent film to new audiences. This is more important than ever before with every facet of the industry enduring difficult times – something that could be tempered by more opportunity and appetite for independent film. Consequently, we were adamant that the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival would only ever be a live event and while it was touch-and-go whether or not we would be able to remain true to this, fortune favoured the brave and we were able to screen our programme in a live cinema setting.

The response from audiences was incredible and emphatic and while we were unable to hold a live closing awards ceremony this year, we ran an online event which included our first ever Jaguar D’or. The festival also saw the release of our first ever Satisfied Eye Magazine (which went to all sales agents and distributors in the UK) as well as numerous Zoom Q&As and talks.

The full list of winners can be seen below.

ONE TO WATCH – ALBIN WILDNER (DOGWATCH)
COMEDY SHORT – BLOCKS
SCREENPLAY – DAVID HAY (HOT CHOCOLATE)
CINEMATOGRAPHY – LUCIA VENERO (REPLICA)
DOCUMENTARY – UNDERAGE ENGINEERS
JURY PRIZE – IGNACY REJMAK (UNDERAGE ENGINEERS)
VIRTUAL REALITY – SWING
PLATINUM AWARD – WHEN ALL THAT’S LEFT IS LOVE
DIRECTOR – OSKAR LEHEMAA (BAD HAIR)
RISING STAR – LENIE B DESROSIERS (ANGEL & ALIEN)
VISIONARY AWARD – BLOOD RULE
SUPPORTING ACTOR – SIGURD SELE (RUBBISH ROBBERS)
FEMALE DIRECTOR – TATIANA FEDOROVSKAYA (MUM’S HAIRPINS)
ACTOR – RAINER WOSS (DOGWATCH)
SOUND – BAD HAIR
ANIMATED FILM – QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT ALTUM VIDETUR
ACTRESS – JOKE EMMERS (LIEVE)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SISSAL DREWS HJALTALIN (NO ILL WILL)
UK SHORT – BULLDOG
SCORE – LIEVE
PEOPLE’S CHOICE – ALINA
JAGUAR D’OR – 1971
SURREY FILM – CHOKER

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Our schedule of talks and Q&As is now available. While all our screenings take place at the ODEON Luxe Epsom from 9-11 October, the wonders of Covid 19 have restricted filmmaker attendance. We don’t want our audiences to miss out on one of the most popular elements of the festival and have spent the past few weeks running pre-recorded Q&As with a number of our filmmakers, with all questions being provided by our industry and local judges. All films with a Q&A are bolded in red in the programme below.

All Q&As will appear on our Youtube Channel following the screening. Go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF06_Ta8VmkWgne02CGUyMQ throughout the festival to see the Q&As and also to enjoy our talk on Diversity for Women in the Industry and also an insightful discussion on How to Succeed at Film Festivals.

Our closing awards ceremony, our own version of the Oscars, will be published on our Youtube channel on Monday 12 October at 7.30pm BST.

And if you haven’t already, go to www.satisfiedeye.com/tickets now and book your tickets. Watch the trailer to get a sample of all the great movies on show https://youtu.be/HBTbDuQxnlc

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Our first ever MovieCon sponsored by ProCosplay and SaberZone took place on Saturday 11 July and exceeded all expectations, despite the pesky pandemic. Originally scheduled to take place as a live in-person event, MovieCon 2020 was moved online in response to Covid 19, with a prize masquerade competition for cosplayers around the world.

With prizes including hand crafted combat lightsabers from SaberZone and 50% off vouchers from ProCosplay, we were astonished by the quality of submissions which came in from every corner of the globe, from New Zealand to New Jersey, from Australia to Austria.

With a judging panel that included Star Trek legend Marina Sirtis, as well as Nice N Nerdy Cosplay, Funkster Cosplay, Heroes of Geek Cosplay and our own Artistic Director Chris Hastings, awards were given out in six categories and the judges all agreed that the quality of submissions was astonishingly high.

THE WINNERS

BEST PROFESSIONAL COSPLAY

Morgan Freasier (Overall winner) and Leida Margeretha (Special Mention).

BEST APPRENTICE COSPLAY

Lauren Wilkinson (Overall winner) and Katie Voice (Special Mention).

COMMUNITY AWARD

Jason Coster (Overall winner) and Tak Smyth (Special Mention).

SPIRIT OF COSPLAY AWARD

Anna Elizabeth Gant (Overall winner) and Caroline, Jason, Lachlan and Claudia Smith (Special Mention). There were also Special Mentions from Marina Sirtis for Sally Seagraves and Damien Valentine for their awesome Star Trek cosplays.

BEST PERFORMANCE

Nina Dadas Curguz (Overall winner) and Ethan McKnight (Special Mention).

UNDER 12s

Jaiden Cluck (Overall winner) and Cohen Guyan (Special Mention).

RAFFLE WINNER

The winner of our prize raffle asked for us to not announce their name.

We want to thank absolutely everyone who took the time to enter, to SaberZone and ProCosplay for providing amazing prizes and can’t wait to return in 2021 when we’ll hopefully be able to hold our first live MovieCon!

See you then!

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If you want something a little off-the-wall to pass the time during C19 lockdown, why not try our devilish movie quote quiz at https://youtu.be/8saLzDv0h18

We’ll be completely honest, this is a home school project that got a little out of hand! All credit for the work done on this (apart from choosing the quotes) goes to 10 year old Seraphina who we think you’ll agree deserves an A+!

This was never intended for public consumption (so no apologies for sound quality etc) but during these trying times we thought it might relieve some boredom and maybe inspire you to make some quizzes of your own!

We have decided to give away two pairs of full festival passes as a prize (or you can just do it for fun!) so you can either send us your answers (just send us an email to [email protected] with the subject MOVIE QUIZ with your answers listed 1 to 20 by 30 June 2020) or wait until we release the answers in the first week of July when we’ll also draw at random two names who have answered the most quotes correctly. No one affiliated with the festival may enter.

We should point out many of the quotes are from 18 certificate films so this isn’t for children (although there’s no foul language as this was made by a 10-year-old, but they won’t know the films!)

If you’re finding it tricky, the doodles each give a clue to the film.

So, go ahead and guess the movie title.

And while you’re at it, why not join our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye/ to be kept up to date with any more quizzes, competitions, giveaways and events at Satisfied Eye.

And although we’re not affiliated with Little Live Pets and they haven’t endorsed this video in any way, we’d like to thank them for hours of fun during this lockdown (and keeping Seraphina smiling!)

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While we’re all stuck inside and trying to decide which of our family members to eat during the apocalypse, the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival is excited to launch our first ever Local Photographer of the Year competition for 2020.

The competition is open to anyone living within the borough of Epsom and Ewell, and is open to all ages.

So it’s time to send us your best photos of quarantine life.  

Yes, that’s right, what better way to celebrate all that extra time we get to spend with our loved ones than to take that one perfect picture that encapsulates this year’s theme:

My life in isolation

You can interpret that theme any way you like.  It can be crazy, serious, funny, artistic, the choice is yours. It could be of a person, an animal, an object, even the view out of a window.

But all photos MUST be taken in your home or in your own garden/property while adhering to the isolation rules.

All photos will be judged on three criteria – originality, creativity and quality with cash prizes for the winning entries. You don’t have to own an expensive camera and whether you take your photos on a phone, iPad or Canon, we want to see your bursts of inspiration and/or fun.

Closing deadline for entries is the 1st of May 2020.

Submissions must be sent to [email protected] and have as the subject SEIFF PHOTO 2020 ENTRY. Full details are below. 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

By entering the competition, entrants confirm that they have read, understood and agree to be bound by the following competition rules:

1 The SEIFF Local Photographer of the Year 2020 competition is open to everyone living within the borough of Epsom & Ewell.

2 Entrants must like the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival page at www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye before submission

3 Entrants must submit a maximum of one photo with the theme of ‘My life in isolation.’

4 Entries must be received no later than midnight on 1 May 2020.

5 Photographs must be taken in your home or in your own garden/property while observing isolation rules.

6 All submissions must be the original unedited photo.  No post production, Photoshopping, colour grading etc is allowed although we will allow cropping.  

7 Files must be submitted as jpegs with a maximum file size of 5mb.

8 Each photo MUST  be submitted with the following information: 

Full name of photographer, age of photographer, postcode AND  a title for your photograph.  

9 For those entries by anyone under the age of 18 a parent or guardian MUST submit the application using their own email, with the above information of the photographer, even if the photographer has their own email account.

10 Only one submission per person but there are no limits on submissions per household.

11 Entry shall only be valid if all of the above submission requirements have been adhered to.

12 The winner of the competition shall be decided by a panel of judges (see below) and who shall decide, in their absolute discretion, the winner.

13 The decision of the judges shall be final and binding and no correspondence shall be entered into by SEIFF.

14 The copyright of any photograph entered into the competition shall remain with the entrant. However, entrants consent to SEIFF displaying submitted images for any publicity and/or promotional activities related to the SEIFF Local Photographer of the Year 2020 competition both online and in a public place.

15 No alternative to any prize is available and the prizes shall be non-transferable.

16 Anyone not living within the borough will be disqualified.

17 SEIFF takes no responsibility for work not received.

18 In the event of insufficient submissions, SEIFF retains the right to close that category and withhold the associated prize.

HOW TO ENTER

Submissions must be sent to [email protected] with the subject SEIFF PHOTO 2020 ENTRY 

WINNERS

A shortlist will be announced 8 May 2020 and displayed at www.satisfiedeye.com and www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye

Winners will be announced by 4pm on 16 May 2020 at www.satisfiedeye.com and displayed at www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye

ENTRY FEES 

Entry is free.

PRIZES

£50 cash prize plus a full pass to the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival

Winning images along with those shortlisted will be displayed at the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival and at www.satisfiedeye.com

JUDGES

JOHN MCMURTRIE – Multi-award-winning Epsom music photographer John is the official photographer for IRON MAIDEN, METAL HAMMER magazine top photographer and go to guy for Rock and metal in the music industry.

CAI TAYLOR – Cai is one half of Epsom based design agency Cai and Kyn and co-founder of Once Upon a Town magazine. Cai has art directed international magazines such as Icon and Kodachrome where he’s been fortunate to work with some of the worlds best analog photographers.

KRULA – Like sting or Madonna, Krula is a portrait photographer who only needs one name  who loves working with people. What Krula looks for in photography is balance in lighting, composition, framing, subject. “Balance is what makes a great picture.”

ADA VAUGHAN – A Canadian director and producer, Ada provides consultancy services for the Academy Awards and was named as one of the Emerging20 Filmmakers at ReelWorld Film Festival and one of the eight select director participants chosen for the Women in the Director’s Chair at Banff.

INFO

For further enquiries email [email protected]

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Discussions are ongoing right now to ensure whatever the outlook in the autumn, we will have an effective policy to provide the best festival possible. We at SEIFF have always been advocates of the live experience and don’t think online festivals can ever match those events shown in theatres, cinemas and other venues, but should we for any reason be required to take the festival online, be assured that we will do everything within our power to make it a unique and exceptional event.

Currently, we have taken the decision to postpone our monthly local screenings until further notice but, to use the preferred phrase of every government right now, we will be monitoring the situation closely, so this might change. 

Aside from that, it’s all situations normal; we are currently judging all submissions (with our next deadline imminent) as we work towards another exceptionally high quality programme.  Whatever happens in the autumn, we will still be doing all we can to promote independent filmmakers and filmmaking and our awards ceremony will still take place, virtual or otherwise.

In the meantime, to our SEIFF family past, present and future, be safe, be healthy and be humane.

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