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Published: 13 November 2008

Franny Armstrong receives her Grierson award

Pick of the Indies

POP the champers: Camden Town’s Spanner Films have scooped a prestigious award at this month’s Sheffield Film Festival.
Director Franny Armstrong and producer Lizzie Gillet’s eco-drama-doc Age Of Stupid has won a Grierson, which is basically like an Oscar for documentaries, named after Scottish film-maker John Grierson whose work in the 1930s broke new ground. He teamed up with Camden Town-based Humphrey Jennings and was a founder member of the GPO film unit.
Now the film-makers are waiting to hear whether they have been given the chance to screen it at the biggie – the Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Pete Postlewaite, it also has a brief shot of yours truly playing a local newspaper reporter (I have mentioned this before, but can’t help but do so again). And I can’t fail to mention Susanna Price from Kentish Town, who won an award at the festival for her short on window cleaners working at Canary Wharf.

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