Graduates in Sundance Award-Winning Short

A short film featuring four Acting graduates from RWCMD has won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Burger – a story about the characters that inhabit the twilight world of late night burger bars – won a Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting.

Produced by the Iris Prize, it featured MA Acting graduates Mathew David (pictured above), Neal McWilliams and Charlotte Brimble, and current final year BA Acting student Emily Barber.

Mathew David travelled to Sundance with director Magnus Morke to promote the film. He said: “Being at Sundance was a crazy experience. I met so many people and made lots of connections while I was there. We didn’t expect to win anything at all – especially as there were 66 short films programmed during the festival (chosen from 8,100 original submissions).

“Burger was my first job after I graduated. The cast were all very different groups of people – some actors, some people who had never acted before, and the acting was quite risky– but we must have pulled it off.”

And that’s exactly what the jury at Sundance thought too, praising Burger for “its uncanny observation of complex social dynamics.”