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FULL LIST OF SUBMISSIONS ENTERED

(Not including the special categories: The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award, Footage Library of the Year, Footage Library Person of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award - see below)

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i-iii) Awards for Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions (3 separate Awards will be presented)

1929: The Great Crash Blakeway Productions
40 Years of TVN, Your Story is My Story (40 Años TVN, Tu Historia Es Mi Historia) Television Nacional De Chile
A Tale of Two Britains Blakeway Productions

A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony

National Film Board of Canada 
A Wall in Berlin (Un Mur à Berlin) Kuiv Productions
Airmen and The Headhunters Icon Films  
Andrew Marr's the Making of Modern Britain BBC Factual London  
Apocalypse - World War II CC&C
Berlin: 20 Years After   Canadian Broadcasting Corporation  
China's Capitalist Revolution   Brook Lapping Productions  
Convoy: Battle of the Atlantic Cream Productions Inc.
Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil   BBC
Dear Elena Francis (Querida Dona Elena)
Televisio de Catalunya  
Deep Wreck Mysteries   Mallinson Sadler Productions, Northern Sky Entertainment and Deep Sea Productions for UTV  
Discoveries of a Marionette Piraya Film
Einsatzgruppen - the Death Brigades Kuiv Productions
Everything on Film (Popeth Ar Ffilm) Cwmni Da
Fighting Passions Blakeway Productions
Forever Plastic Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Franco and Fidel: An inconvenient Friendship  Televisio de Catalunya
German Autumn '46 AMIP
Happy Birthday OU - Forty Years of the Open University   BBC
Hop Skip & Jump: The Story of Children's Play Testimony Films  
In the name of Islam (Au nom de l'Islam)   Ina  
Iran and the West Brook Lapping Productions
Iran: the Hundred-Year War Artline Films
Japan, the Emperor and the Army   KAMI Productions  
JFK 3 Shots That Changed America   New Animal Productions  
Meet The British   BBC
Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash Darlow Smithson Productions
Monsieur Advertising: Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet  Artline Films  
Mountbatten: Return to Mullaghmore Below The Radar TV
Mud Sweat and Tractors   Available Light Productions  
Murder File Hrant Dink  
Filmpool
Napoli: City Of The Damned   Tigerlily Films  
Oil Spill - The Exxon Valdez Disaster   Smoking Dogs Films
On Tour With The Queen  Lion Television
Outbreak ITV Studios
Professor Oehmichen's Magnificent Flying Machines   Sombrero & Co
Projekt Huemul: The Fourth Reich in Argentina   Cinema 7 Films  
Saving Britain's Past BBC Productions for The Open University
Shanghai, the Roaring Years Ideale Audience
Soldiers' Stories: Northern Ireland   POV Production Company  
The Berlin Wall (Wal Berlin) Cwmni Da  
The Children Who Fought Hitler   Testimony Films  
The City Uncovered with Evan Davis   BBC Current Affairs  
The Gangster and the Pervert Peer Blakeway Productions
The Human Zoo - Science's Dirty Secret   Diverse Production
The Lost World of Communism BBC
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court Skylight Pictures
The Secret Life of the Airport BBC - Factual London
The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall   Diverse Production  
The War (De Oorlog)   NPS
The Way We Worked RTÉ
The Week We Went To War Finestripe Productions
The Windsors - Triumph and Tragedy   ZDF
Tragedy 607-E (Tragóid 607-E) Nemeton
Tsunami: Caught on Camera Darlow Smithson Productions
Under the Banners (Sous les Drapeaux) AMIP  
 

 

iv) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production

 

A Farewell to Floyd Cactus TV
A Little Bit Funny: Twink RTÉ
As Seen on TV Shine TV
Harry Hill's TV BURP Avalon Television
Head Games WGTL LLC
How To Be Old   BBC
Rude Tube 2009 October Films
Saturday Kitchen Live Cactus TV
The Funny Side of...  Animals / Politics etc BBC Scotland  
The Great British Foreign Holiday BBC  
The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties Mono TV
The Most Annoying People of 2009 Shine TV
Your TV - UTV at 50   UTV

 

v) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production

 

Arena: Cool BBC Arena  
Arena: T.S. Eliot BBC Arena  
Child of the Dead End (Patrick Mac Gill: Tachrán Gan Todhchaí)  Glass Machine Production
Folk America   BBC Music Entertainment  
In The Blood  - The Kilfenora Céilí Band Stray Dog for RTÉ
Kors' Choice   P&P Regisseurs.nl  
Legends: The Andrews Sisters - Queens of the Music Machines BBC Wales
Legends: The Beverley Sisters - Tickled Pink BBC Wales
Legends: The Motown Invasion BBC Wales
Oh My Papa   Mesch & Ugge  
Oliver Postgate - A Life in Small Films BBC
Paul Merton Looks At Alfred Hitchcock   BBC
Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation In Three Movements   BBC Music Entertainment  
Queens of British Pop BBC Music Entertainment
School of Saatchi Princess Productions / Rare Day
The Beatles On Record Apple Corps Ltd  

 

vi) Award for Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage

 

Natural World: Bringing Up Baby
BBC - NHU  
Operation Deep Sea - Shedding Light in the Darkness Marco Polo Film AG
Shark Nicole NHNZ
The WotWots   Pukeko Pictures
Walk on the Wild Side   BBC  
 

 

vii) Award for Best Use of Sports Footage

 

Empire of Cricket   BBC
GAA @ 125 Bliain Nemeton Teo
Jim Clark - The Quiet Champion   Mark Stewart Productions  
Sport Wales Special - The Ninian Park Story   BBC Cymru Wales  
The Story of Bolero with Torvill and Dean   ITV Studios
 

 

viii) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement or Trailer

 

 

AVIVA: Name Change Serious Pictures /AMV BBDO  
EDF: Green Britain Day Olympic London Euro RSCG London  
GARMIN: Nature Relies on Instinct Egg Films Johannesburg  
GEICO: Dirt Vignettes Alien Kung-Fu   
HEINZ: Beanz Montage AMV BBDO    
HSBC: Rugby Sponsorship Outsider / JWT  
IG INDEX: Cause and Effect DDB London  
MERCEDES BENZ: Era Radical Media GMBH  

 

ix) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Production

 

AA100 Short Films Open University Virals   360 production  
Flash Forward (And Back) David Hopkinson
Losing our heads for 16:9 Doncvoilà / SCAM / SACD
Nutriganics Body Shop /MDE
Sibos: One Year On Jack Morton Worldwide
 

 

x) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Educational or Corporate Production

 

13 in the War (13 in de Oorlog)   NPS
Centenary: The BP Story   Lone Star Productions  
Saving Britain's Past BBC Productions for The Open University
Traces of History CCTV
Witness: Apartheid, South Africa BBC
 

 

xi) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release  

Capitalism: A Love Story   Front Street Productions, LLC  
Crude @radical.media
Déchaînées (Unleashed) Rita Productions
Earth Days   Robert Stone Productions
Farewell Pieter van Huystee Film & TV  
L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno)   Lobster Films
Looking for Eric Sixteen Film
Miss Stinnes Motors Round The World Taglicht Media Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Pax Americana   Lowik Media  
Rerberg and Tarkovsky. The Reverse Side of “Stalker”   MD Project Ltd  
Son and Moon (The Astronaut's Diary)   Bausan Films, Mediapro / Pentagrama Films  
Soul Power Antidote International Films, Inc.
Starsuckers S2S Productions
Surrogates   PIC Agency  
The Man Who Bottled Clouds Good Ju-Ju  
What do you know about me  Ameuropa International
 

 

xii) Award for Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms

 

Beneath Black Skies Why Documentaries
Hunky Blues   Filmpartners Ltd
It felt like a kiss BBC
Moving Memories: Tales From Moss Side and Hulme   Troubadour Cultural Heritage Foundation  
Newreels Online (Filmhíradók Online) John von Neumann Digital Library and Multimedia Centre
Reelintime.com Reelives Limited
Video Active   Creation BT
 

 

xiii) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Home Video Release  


 
A Dream of Flight Countrywide Productions
All About Animals BBC
British Invasion- Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965-1968   Reelin' In The Years Productions  
forsenses: A Fascinating Journey into Nature & Sound   Framepool AG  
Monty Python Almost The Truth: The Lawyers Cut Bill & Ben Productions
Over Our Dead Bodies   Stewkley Film Archive  
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)   NSSAW  
The Norman Lear TV Collection - DVD Bonus Featurettes   Authorized Pictures
 

 

xiv) Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project

 

 

Accident (1967)   Studio Canal / Optimum Releasing / BFI / Deluxe Digital London
Are You Being Served (1972) BBC / BBC Studios and Post Production
Fawlty Towers (1975) 2Entertain / BBC Studios and Post Production 
Now and Then (1967-68) BFI National Film Archive / Prime Focus
The Red Shoes (1948)   ITV/BFI/The Film Foundation/UCLA Film &Television Archive  
United Press International Television News Collection (1963-85)   AP Archive
 

 

SHORTLISTED NOMINATIONS IN THE ABOVE CATEGORIES WILL BE ANNOUNCED End Feb 2010

xv) The Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year Award

 

xvi) Award for Footage Library of the Year

 

 

xvii) Award for Footage Library Person of the Year
xviii) Award for Lifetime Achievement
 

The final nominations of these 4 categories will be announced at the Awards ceremony

27 April, 2010.