Spanner in the Works is an award-winning film directed by Ben Grace. As part of the Exposure Filmmakers 48hr Film Challenge 2014 Spanner in the Works won the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Editor awards. Spanner in the Works details the final day a son spends living in his father’s home before moving out. This emotional family drama looks at the things left unsaid between those you love the most.
Screened as part of Southampton Film Week 2014 at Sonar Cinema (Southampton Solent University), Spanner in the Works proved very popular with the judges, winning 3 of the available 7 awards. Spanner in the Works was accepted into the 5th Annual Siliguri International Short Film and Documentary Contest (as part of the Siliguri International Film Festival) in West Bengal, India and competed for Short Film of the Month in the January 2015 edition of #TOFF: The Online Film Festival (placing second). In March 2015 Spanner in the Works was also accepted into the Très Court International Film Festival.
Exposure Filmmakers 48 hour Film Challenge is a yearly competition run by Exposure Filmmakers, a local community of filmmakers which meet at the Arthouse Cafe on the last Wednesday of every month. The teams that enter have 48 hours to write, shoot and completely edit a brand new short film that lasts no longer than 4 minutes. It must also contain at least 3 of the 7 items drawn at random at the start of the competition (A genre, title, prop, costume, location, character trait and line of dialogue). For the last two years, it has been featured as part of the Southampton Film Week line-up.
AWARDS
Exposure Filmmakers 48 Hour Film Challenge 2014
Best Director (Winner)
Best Actor (Winner)
Best Editor (Winner)
Très Court International Film Festival 2015
International Competition (Nominated)
Siliguri International Film Festival 2014
Best Foreign Film (Nominated)
Walthamstow International Film Festival 2015
Best Drama (Nominated)
The Box Film Festival 2015
Best Local Short (Nominated)
TOFF: The Online Film Festival 2015
Film of the Month (Nominated)
Winchester Short Film Festival 2015
Best Drama Short (Longlisted)