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A tale of a missing artist scooped the top prize at this year's Canary Wharf Film Festival.

Keith O'Shea's documentary Dear Matthew won the coveted Golden Canary Award at a closing presentation at the East Wintergarden last night.

CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL
Showcase

IN A NUTSHELL
Some of Europe's best shorts pop up in Canary Wharf, but all we've got eyes for is a slap-up meal and a game of football.

CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL
Serbian shorts/Turneja

IN A NUTSHELL
War is at the heart of many of these Serbian films, but ordinary life in the region is hardly short of its dark human drama.

CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL
International Mix

IN A NUTSHELL
It's dark, dark, dark out there in the big world this year, but there's enough of a break from the war and the beatings for someone to lob a burning piano off a skyscraper.

CANARY WHARF FILM FESTIVAL
UK Mix

IN A NUTSHELL
It's a good year for animation and documentary, and one atmospheric stop-motion short blows bubbles in the face of the competition.

Empty your diary - it's time to enjoy the spectacular offerings of the Canary Wharf Film Festival.

The annual celebration of UK and international short film returns to the estate from today until Monday.

This year's Canary Wharf Film Festival isn't just penned within the M25. In fact, it's even reaching out into faraway corners of Europe.

Having expanded into the world of music video last year, organisers will use the 2009 event to launch an annual focus on the films of an "unrepresented" country.

Canary Wharf is an unusual bustling metropolis on the edge of one of the world's great cities.

So what does the estate ask of its premier arts and events venue?

Budding filmmakers could see their creations on screen at the Canary Wharf Film Festival in September.

Organisers began accepting submissions yesterday for the event, which returns for its third year in late 2009.

The Canary Wharf Film Festival recognised its brightest stars at an awards ceremony at the East Wintergarden. Ben Broomfield captured the action on the night.

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Left: Auditioning website Be The Movie Star's award winners Sebastian Street, Stephanie Connell and Emile Jansen
Right: Young documentary makers Vanessa Onalo, Antonia Awoyemi, Giovanni Da Costa and Cleevan Baron, who took part in a two-day workshop in Canary Wharf as part of the festival.

Animation award winner Reza Dolatabadi, director of Khoda

Mark Locke won best music video for UNKLE's Hold My Hand

Left: Leon Chambers, director of UK Short Film winner Stolen Youth
Right: Festival director Olivia Bellas (right of picture) with assistant director Phil Dixon

Co-presenters Colin Moody, Sacha Smith and Mattar Jones were selected after auditioning on the Be The Movie Star website

Festival director Olivia Bellas

John Hill gawps at the overseas gems washing up in Docklands

Some film-makers are content to put together well-shot pieces about relationships, families and life.

Others are just...well...a little weird.

Welcome to the wonderful and eye-opening world of this year's short film category, which is laden with neat effects, black humour and twists that will keep you from getting too settled in that comfy sofa of yours.

John Hill samples the UK's top film-making talent

Why so serious, guys?

It's been an overcast summer, sure, but there's a definite air of glumness among the Brit entries at this year's Canary Wharf Film Festival. But I'd much rather be inspired than cheered up any day.

The 2008 programme features sick children, young criminals, doomed relationships, angry young men and fed-up professionals. Worse still, there's even a headset-wielding sleazeball thrown in too.

Click here for photographs of the awards night. Or browse The Wharf's round-up of the festival's UK and International Short Films, Documentaries, Animation and Music Videos

WESTFERRY director Robb Ellender was among the big winners at this year's Canary Wharf Film Festival.

Robb's short film Illusion Dwellers picked up the Best Documentary award as the second year event wrapped up with a ceremony in Canary Wharf's East Wintergarden.

John Hill travels the world with the festival's documentary shorts

WOULD you wait several years to catch a fish?

In London, commuters would start burning effigies if they had to wait more than ten minutes for a sandwich. But this is Columbus, North Dakota, the frozen backdrop to Kelly Neal's poignant documentary How To Save A Fish From Drowning.

Laura MacDonald taps her feet to the latest music videos

Creating music videos that stray away from the slick formula of promos aired on mainstream music channels can be a risk but the artists being showcased at the 2nd Annual Canary Wharf Film Festival are proving that the gamble can be worth it.

Lucia Blash enters an unreal world at the second-year film festival

Animation, often weird, always wonderful, has delighted audiences since the early 1900s when Emile Cohl tapped the imagination muse, creating Fantasmogorie, and Walt Disney burst on the scene with Steamboat Willie.

WHO will get your vote for the top movie at this year’s Canary Wharf Film Festival?

Visitors to the event will have the chance to nominate their favourite 2008 entrant for the People’s Choice award. The winner will be announced during the awards night at Canary Wharf’s East Wintergarden on September 1.

YOUNG film-makers beat the clock to create their own documentary in Canary Wharf.

The estate was the backdrop for a two-day crash course in storyboarding and filming, run in association with the Canary Wharf film festival and Blue Sky Media.

William Raban is a film-maker, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a story-teller.

The Mile End-based artist began to explore cinema after studying painting in the 1970s. And he believes you can capture more of a scene by just shooting it, rather than manipulating it with plots and fancy editing.

He said: “When I film, I try to be invisible. I like to think I’m attempting to achieve a sort of objectivity.
“I worked with actors once but I’m not really that interested in narrative cinema. Life on the street is so interesting that I can’t imagine why people would want to invent stories.�

The seventh East End Film Festival is launching at Bethnal Green's Rich Mix Centre tonight. The week-long event is just one of a reel of movie showcases screening in London this year, including the Canary Wharf and London film festivals.

The festivals will be visiting Wharf locations such as the Cineworld West India Quay, the East Wintergarden and the Museum in Docklands.

Here's a short run down of what to expect, and how to get involved.