Radiator wins Glasgow Film Festival audience award
It was announced on Sunday that Tom Browne’s debut feature Radiator has won the first Glasgow Film Festival audience award.
The film – which focuses on a middle-aged bachelor returning to assist his elderly parents, and was shot in the house which belonged to Browne's deceased parents – scored the highest marks of the ten films shortlisted for the prize, seeing off competition from Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behaviour and ‘Iranian vampire western’ A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Mardan, Life in a Fishbowl, Tender, Theeb, The Wonders, 52 Tuesdays and When Animals Dream also featured on the shortlist.
Receiving the audience award, Browne said: “Radiator has an unfashionable theme and was made on a tiny budget. Unsurprisingly it is taking a while for the film to find a place within the film industry so to receive this award is very significant for Radiator's future.”
In our CineSkinny reader awards, there was a dead heat at the top – Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Daniel Wolfe's debut film Catch Me Daddy are joint winners after receiving the same number of votes from CineSkinny readers.
In other Festival news, the dates for the 2016 GFF have been confirmed – next year’s edition will take place from 17 to 28 Feb – while admission numbers topped the 40,000 mark for the second successive year.