Worksop film maker Harry wins four awards at LA movie festival

Worksop filmmaker Harry Downing’s movies could be coming to a cinema near you after his script and film won four awards at a US film festival.
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The 23-year-old former film degree student was honoured at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival when two of his projects, a script entitled Stay Indoors and a short film called Thinking Back both won awards.

And Harry has just discovered that Thinking Back has been accepted into the Dumbo Film Festival in New York.

Stay Indoors as is about two people who, having had a one-night stand, are forced to remain indoors together when lockdown restrictions are announced the morning after.

Harry Dowling won four awards at the Los Angeles Motion Picture FestivalHarry Dowling won four awards at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival
Harry Dowling won four awards at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival

After Harry submitted the script, he was contacted by festival representatives who asked to see more of his work.

Weeks later they revealed he had won their Bronze Award for Best Screenwriting and the Red Platinum Award for Best Screenplay.

The other film Harry submitted, Thinking Back, is about a letter from a woman, which she gave to her former boyfriend before she died of cancer.

The film won the Silver Award for Best Low Budget Film and the Platinum Red Award for Short Film Drama.

Harry commented: “ “It was such a pleasure to hear I had won.”

Harry is currently working on a feature-length love story.

He said: “This film is set around a bunch of lads who go to Zante and one of them falls for a girl from Ireland who's there on a girl's holiday. “They decide to keep the romance going after they return home, but then reality kicks in.

““I’m inspired by stories and experiences from my own life as well as other films. Like Crazy, a 2011 film with Felicity Jones, is among them.

“Another recent inspiration is the BBC series Normal People. I loved the realism of the relationship between Connell and Marianne, the love they have for each other despite everything that happens.”

Harry has sent his projects to film festivals in cities including York, Leeds, London, Milan, as well as the Blue Danube Film Festival in Austria and Hungary.

He continued: “When lockdown is over, my intention is to get Stay Indoors made into a film and I already have a number of people who want to be involved and help with the making of it.”

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