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, 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 160 film festivals worldwide and viewed 4 million times online.
Funded by Creative England and BFI NETWORK.