Awards
Atlanta Horror Film Festival (USA, 2016) - Best Zombie Short
Fast Anchor Film Festival (UK, 2016) - Best Manchester Short
Horrorhound Film Festival (USA, 2017) - Best Short, Best SFX
Drunken Film Festival (UK, 2017) - Best Short
Cinema Camp Film Festival (Spain, 2017) - Best Director
Requiem Fear Fest (Canada, 2017) - Best Short Film, Best Actor
Downtown Tyler Film Festival (USA, 2017) - Best of Fest
Leigh Film Festival (UK, 2017) - Best North West Film
Care Film Festival (Italy, 2017) - Best Horror Film
Midwest Horror Fest (USA, 2017) - Best Film, Best SFX, Best Score
Sin City Horror Fest (USA, 2017) - Best Director, Best Score
Post Mortem Film Festival (Mexico, 2017) - Best Horror Short
Sweet As Film Festival (Canada, 2018) - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Japan, 2018) - Award for Artistic Contribution
Prison City Film Festival (USA, 2018) - Best VFX
Fylde Film Festival (UK, 2018) - Best Horror/Thriller
Cefalù Film Festival (Italy, 2018) - Best Editing
Nevermore Film Festival (USA, 2017) - Best International Short Runner Up
Faro's International Short Film Festival (Portugal, 2017) - Best Fiction Film Runner Up
Joinville International Short Film Festival (Brazil, 2017) - Honourable Mention
Highway 61 Film Festival (USA, 2017) - Best Action/Horror Short Runner Up
Selected Screenings
Encounters International Film Festival (UK, 2016) * **
Screamfest (USA, 2016)
Brest European Short Film Festival (France, 2016) *
Leeds International Film Festival (UK, 2016) * **
London Short Film Festival (UK, 2017) *
Fantasporto / Oporto International Film Festival (Portugal, 2017)
Sydney Film Festival (Australia, 2017) * **
Splat! Film Fest (Poland, 2017)
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden, 2017)
Morbido: Festival Internacional de Cine Fantastico y de Terror (Mexico, 2017)
Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival (Belgium, 2017)
ScienceplusFiction - Trieste Int’l Science Fiction Film Festival (Italy, 2017)
Fancine - Fantastic Film Festival (Spain, 2017)
Abertoir Horror Festival (UK, 2017)
*BAFTA Qualifying **OSCAR Qualifying
A FATHER'S DAY
Short Film | 2016 | 9 min 57 sec
Genre: Drama
Status: Completed
Writer and Director: Mat Johns
Producer: Chris Lane
Executive Producers: Paul Ashton, Jessica Loveland
Cast: Garth Maunders, Hazel Gibson
Synopsis
Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead.
Additional Information
A Father's Day is a twist on a short genre piece exploring the duality of the living and the dead in a post-apocalyptic world. Instead of a film following a group of hardened survivors, we follow the losers.
Featuring special make-up effects from Shaune Harrison (Harry Potter, Star Wars) and Brogan Sharp (Pinocchio, Black Mirror) the film has been selected for over 150 film festivals worldwide and viewed 3.6 million times across all platforms.
Funded by Creative England and BFI NETWORK.