The Ostlake Film Awards 2018 - The Nominations

[DaveIronside]

The 2018 version of the Ostlake Film Awards, also known as the Ozzies is set for Friday 11th February 2018 and will take place at the Ostlake Royal Theatre. As usual it will honour the best and brightest in the East Moreland film industry and beyond.

This year there will be four categories open to foreign films

1. Best International Film (Two nominations per nation)
2. Best International Short Film (One nomination per nation)
3. Best International Song (One nomination per nation)
4. Best International Documentary (One nomination per nation)

NOMINATION RULES

1. Best International Film

No "claiming films" I've included the list of previously claimed films only as a guide to what has been used before.

For each film write a brief synopsis of the film giving the plot etc. This can't be more than 500 words, it can be inspired by a real film, but you need a unique title. Try and sell the film as though your advertising it.

Winner will be determined from a vote by all those entering, by PM you will be able to award 5,3 and 1 point to other nations nominees. You may not vote for your own nation.

Spoiler: Films used in the past • show

Achkaerin - Hunger Games
Achkaerin - Star Trek
Achkaerin - James Bond
Achkaerin - X-Men
Achkaerin - Peter Pan
Achkaerin - Lord of The Rings and therefore also The Hobbit
Dartfordia -Frozen
Dartfordia - Harry Potter
East Moreland - Star Wars I inadvertently claimed it
Achkaerin -  The Avengers
Achkaerin - Lala Land
East Moreland - The Hurt Locker

2. Best International Short Film

Any genre, any style but no longer than 5 mins 30 secs (strictly enforced).
Post the Youtube link.
Each nation who nominates may vote. You three votes worth 5pts, 3 pts and 1 pt via PM.

3. Best International Song

Any genre be it a musical score or a song used in a film.
You may nominate any film so long as it was used in a RL film.
Post the YouTube link, which film it was in reality used for.
All nominating nations may cast a vote for their favourite via PM

4. Best International Documentary

Any topic may be covered
Post a YouTube link to an informative non-fiction film no longer than 15 mins in length.
Each nominating nation receives one vote and may not vote for themselves. Votes cast via PM.

[Phonx]

Solonia:
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

The Wasp Movie - Willy the Wasp is fresh out of Waspville Workers University in the People's Republic of Wasptopia. He realizes that his fellow wasps are being expolited and turned into malicious creatures by the evil bee leaders in charge of the Waspford Workers' Party. He sets out on a mission to save the Wasps of Waspford and restore their pride in being wasps. This movie is fun for all the family to watch and will teach your kids not to wander into the honey trap that the evil communist bees have set out. Starring Wojtek Pokorny as Willy the Wasp.

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG
Here Comes The Sun - Angelika Kamińska (from The Wasp Movie)


Palanka Nadu:
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Nuveena - Take a journey back in time to an island shrouded in mystery for centuries. The Ancient Queen of Palanka, Nuveena, is a devoted wife and dedicated follower of the traditions of the Palankan people. For years her husband, King Dimuthu, has been away on the front line of the battle of her Kingdom against the Muslim dominated Samobir Sultanate, the largest Kingdom in the region. Dimuthu returns with terrible news that the Samobir are closing in the on the Kingdom and that he has invited the Samobir Sultan, Jayangir, to try and save the Kingdom from complete destruction at the hands of the unstoppable Samobir Kingdom. Upon Sultan Jayangir's arrival Nuveena instantly sets about trying to impress him in hopes that he will spare the Kingdom her husbands dynasty had spent hundreds of years building. However, this only motivates him to invade the Kingdom and capture the beautiful Queen as his own. Nuveena also falls for him and on the night before he departs home to plan his invasion she commits the most dishonourable crime of all, adultery. The Samobir invasion begins and Nuveena clings on to the hope that her love for Jayangir will make him save her people. Months pass by and the armies of the Samobiur close in on the city and Nuveena loses her husband in battle. The fateful day finally arrives when the Samobir enter the city and Nuveena orders her soldiers to stand down as she welcomes the new ruler of her peoples land into the Palace. Nuveena shares a final moment with the Sultan who she is deeply in love in before herself and her maidens self-immolate themselves to escape the embarrassment of losing the war. Starring Anushika Jayewardene as Nuveena and Amithnal Samaranayake as Jayangir.

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG
Sulataan - Anushika Jayewardene (from Nuveena)

[The Young Pope]

ES:

1. Best International Film.

"Tiempo de Valientes"


In 1885, The Ecclesiastical State under the leadership of Pope Leo XIII sends a military squad to the town of Borgio, Quintelia, to protect one of the last colonies of the Ecclesiastical Empire, to avoid rebellious natives from recovering its ancient territories. Lead by Captain Juan Manuel Pardo and Lieutenant Sánchez, proud military men, the soldiers are stalked by night by the rebels, and are forced to seek refuge in the church run by Fray Isaac, Borgio's priest. Turning the church into a military fort, the unrelenting heat and malaria starts to sweep across the men. After the Captain's death by a disease called beriberi, Sánchez steps in as the new leader of the squad, faced with a constant power struggle with Camilo, a soldier from the previous squad annihilated by the rebels. Becoming more and more paranoid and obsessive with the victory and the glory of the Ecclesiastical Empire, the rebels close to Sánchez explain that the Pope had already signed a peace treaty with the Quintelians, giving them independence, and that the war is over. But Sánchez does not believe in the newspapers given by the rebels and is still obsessed to win at all cost. He makes a last stand in the church with his men, prolonging the battle to several months where one of the soldiers, Nicolás, who falls victim to opium, searches a way to end the conflict, suspecting that all is lost, and wanting to prevent the death of his comrades...

...This is an epic story about soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee. A fight that no one couldn't win. A war that no one wanted to lose.

2. Best International Song
Fort Battle - Trevor Jones (OOC: from the Last of the Mohicans)
Based from one of UC-born Dougie MacLean's popular pieces "The Gael", this song's featured in the film "Tiempo de Valientes" and has become one of the most popular and well-celebrated in the industry, already considered to be a hallmark within film music classics.

3. Best International Short Film
One-Minute Time Machine
Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions.

4. Best International Documentary
109-Year-Old Veteran and His Secrets to Life Will Make You Smile
Meet Richard Overton, One of Mundus' oldest veterans. In this lively short film hear the whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking supercentenarian reveal his secrets to a long life. A tribute to all members of armed forces and especially veterans.

[Achkaerin]

Best International Film



Trust - Fiona North's directorial debut film stars Renee Sandiego as Beatrice Anselmo and Alchemy Naismith as Serenity Azurewind  in a film that combines courtroom drama with flashbacks to the events concerned that really make the viewer think they were there, to tell the story of the Andean Genocide, what happened both publicly and behind the scenes, taking the basis of the plot from eyewitness accounts, court transcripts, available data and interviews with those involved. The films centrepiece is the relationship between the two leading characters and the lack of trust from one of them towards the other, how this lack of trust nearly destroys one woman's name and her nations reputation and how when things look lost together they bring out the truth of what happened to allow the genocide to happen when it should not have. Also featuring a dynamic score from Becky Leighton in her first feature film.

(OOC- this synopsis is based on what is presently ICly public knowledge)

Best International Short Film

She

Best International Song

Don't Cry for Me Rokkenjima - sung by Renee Sandiego for the film Trust

(OOC- actual film version from Evita found here - obviously the RL title of Don't Cry For Me Argentina doesn't make sense in terms of Mundus hence the rename for IC purposes, I use the Salonga version because I model Renee's singing style when it comes to musical theatre pieces around her.)

[Norgeras]

Neu Uburzis



Best International Film:

Vagabonds 2 - Payment Day

After the three Spacefaring Vagabonds Gaius, Serena and Eitri had asked Godfather Hans for Information to get the Republican guards of their track, they knew his Family would soon come knocking on their Door for a favor in Return.

When the mission briefing they got said it was a suicide mission on an Jungle Planet, infiltrating a an abandoned Republican Black Ops Science facility with one of Hans best Killers, they did not expect the Hitman tagging along to be a stoic methodical kid called Yukio.
Only as they meet unexpected survivors, fight Security Systems and local Fauna, the vagabonds realize this Mission is more Personal to Yukio than the seemingly Cold Blood Killer told them.

Best International Song:

Cometh the Hour - Score during the final Final Climax of the Film Vagabonds 2, performed by the Niameck Philharmony

(ooc: Original Cometh the Hour Part B - from Bleach - Jigoku Hen)


Best International Shortfilm:

In a Heartbeat