Shoresh Charitable Trust Audience Award
Established in 2009, the Shoresh Charitable Trust UKJFF Audience Award gives our audiences the opportunity to participate by letting us know about their favourite feature drama and documentary films in the UKJFF programme. Voting slips are made available at all of our venues for festival screenings, with the results of our Shoresh Audience Awards for Best Feature Drama and Best Documentary announced at the end of the Festival.
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2001 Shoresh Charitable Trust Audience Awards for 2011 are Remembrance and Nicky’s Family. Our thanks go to all those who voted for this very important prize, which reflects the films that have most deeply moved our audiences.
Shoresh Audience Award 2011 for Best Feature Drama: Remembrance (Dir. Anna Justice)
Inspired by true events, Remembrance is a remarkable love story set against the backdrop of the darkest of times, as a love that blossoms between a young Jewish woman and a Polish political prisoner in a German concentration camp is rekindled 30 years after they are separated.
Moving yet free of cliche, Anna Justice's film is a deserving winner of the 2011 Shoresh Charitable Trust Audience Award for Best Feature Drama.
Shoresh Audience Award 2011 for Best Documentary: Nicky’s Family (Dir. Matej Minac)
The story of a unique and courageous figure, Nicky's Family retells the remarkable story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his remarkable rescue mission that saved nearly 700 children from the clutches of the Nazis.
Introduced by Esther Rantzen, with Sir Nicholas Winton in attendance, Nicky's Family was one of the hits of the festival, and Matej Minac's film is a deserving winner of the 2011 Shoresh Charitable Trust Audience Award for Best Documentary.
