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GREAT VIBES FOR RONAN

The star of Roake, Ronan Vibert, receives his 'Best actor in a short film.' statuette awarded to him by the SOFIES Film Festival in New York.

ROAKE WINNER IN NYC

Double Whammy in the Big Apple!
Roake had 6 nominations and picked up 2 prizes at the prestigeous SOFIE Film Festival in New York.
Best actor for our star, Ronan Vibert and best editing for Andy Sowerby.
Producers John and Shelagh Jessup were there to pick up the impressive statuettes.
New York! New York! is indeed a wonderful town.

THE SUN SHINES ON ROAKE IN MALLORCA

Roake received 2 nominations for Best Director and Best Cinematography and much praise at the MALLORCA Film Awards.
Locals, Joan Cobos the Director, Juan Gonzálezthe  DOP and Producer, Laura Martin were there to to collect the plaudits from the cream of the Ballaerics film community.
Vamos Roake!

ROAKE ON TOP OF THE WORLD IN ITALY

Roake has been voted Best World Short at the prestigious Prato International Film Festival. Director, Joan Cobos was there to collect the prize.

ROAKE IS LOOKING GOOD IN THAILAND

Roake picked up the Best Cinematography award at the 9Film International Film Festival in Bangkok, another accolade for our marvellous D.O.P Juan Gonzalez.

ROAKE IS HOT, HOT, HOT IN MEXICO

Roake has scooped the award for Best International Short Film at the Linterna Ficu Film Festival!

TOKYO A GO GO!

Roake scooped awards for Best Sci-Fi short and for Best Actor, Ronan Vibert, at the Prestigious Genre Celebration Festival in Tokyo Japan!.

It also got nominations for Best director, Joan Cobos and Best cinematography, Juan Gonzales.

ROAKE is a WINNER in LA LA LAND!

The film It's picked up 2 awards at the One-Reeler Film Festival in Los Angeles, for BEST Cinematography and The Award of Ecellence!

Well done to Cinematographer Juan Gonzales and the team!
 

AMERICAN ADVENTURE! - STO DOMINGO and MEXICO!

Roake hits the screen in Santo Domingo! It has been chosen to feature at the prestigious "Festival de cine Global Dominicano" One of the best festivals in the south American Continent. The same week Roake is hot stuff in Mexico!!
It’s to been selected for the Aurora Festival Internacional de Cine de Horror.


 

EL FRENESÍ DE ROAKE

ROAKE ha sido seleccionado como MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE INTERNACIONAL en el 11º FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE de FRENESÍ en COLOMBIA. Estamos muy orgullosos del premio que estrena el Continente Sudamericano.

ROAKE REACHES 7th HEAVEN IN LONDON

Roake has won over the Judges at the London Independent Film Awards and received the prize for best Horror/Fantasy/Thriller short film, our seventh award so far. 

ROAKE GOES 4 IT at SANTA ANA - CALIFORNIA

The Horrible Imagining Film Festival in San Diego California has given Roake 4 nominations, for Best dramatic short, Best Photography, Best Script and Best Actor for our star, Ronan Vibert.
That’s a great effort for our team as we were up against hundreds of other entrants.

The Horrible Imagining Film Festival en San Diego California ha otrogado 4 nominaciones por Mejor Corto Dramático, Mejor fotografía, Mejor Guión y Mejor Actor, nuestra estrella RONAN VIBERT.
Es un gran esfurzo de equipo ya que participamos contra cientos de cortos fantásticos.


 

THE ROAKE TEAM PARTY IN MENORCA

As Roake was shortlisted at the Festival De Cinema in Menorca Spain, where the film had a special showing on the Illa del Rei in Mahon Harbour, the director Joan Cobos and producers Laura Martin-Martinez, Shelagh Jessup and John Jessup went to celebrate.

FROM IBIZA SHORTS to IBIZA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

ROAKE was part of the official selection of Ibiza Short Film Festival. Now it has been shortlisted as one of the 5 shorts finalists for the International Film Festival in July.  

The selected shorts will receive post-production treatment at the IBIZA FILM LABS and then they will be brought together to create a feature film. More to come soon!

ROAKE formó parte de la sección oficial de IBIZA SHORTS y ha sido seleccionado como uno de los 5 FINALISTAS en el IBIZA INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL de Julio. Los cortos seleccionados recibirán postproducción el los IBIZA FILM LABS y formarán parte de un largometraje. Más noticias pronto!

ROAKE is the WINNER at ZINEZFEST Film Festival in Zaragoza

Zinezfest, is the latest Film Festival to fall under Roake's spell, they've awarded us the prize for the best short film! Thanks Zaragoza! and we absolutely love the original handwritten Jury paper!

 

Zinezfest es el último Festival de Cine que sucumbe al "encanto" de Roake. Nos han concedido el premio a mejor cortometraje! Gracias Zaragoza! Y nos encanta el acta del Jurado redactada a mano!

ROAKE in ESTONIA - OFFICIAL SELECTION

ohn & ROAKE travelled to HAAPSALU Horror and Fantasy film festival in Estonia where it went down well with the enthusiastic and knowledgeable audience.It was part of the Official Selection "Europe in 19 minutes" a collection of the BEST european short films. We want to congratulate the Festival for the amazing program and a great atmosphere!

John y ROAKE viajaron a HAAPSALU Horror and Fantasy film festival donde la audiencia recibió y disfrutó del film, que participaba en la Sección Oficial Europa en 19 minutos, Selección de los Mejores cortometrajes europeos. Queremos felicitar al festival por su increíble programación y su fantástico ambiente. 

ROAKE IS a WIZ in CADIZ!

Roake is a wiz in Cadiz, the short film will be one of the highlights of the Ciudad de la Línea Film festival at the end of May 2018. We are happy to share this festival with "Grushenka" the short directed by our colleague Luis Ortas and produced by Joan.

Roake brilla en Càdiz. El corto serà uno de los destacados en el festival de Ciudad de la Línea a finales de Mayo de 2018. Estamos muy contentos de competir en el festival con "Grushenka", corto de nuestro colega Luis Ortas producido por Joan.

LANDSHUT - GERMAN PREMIERE

Roake continued its world tour of the film festivals turning up this time at the Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival in Germany!

Roake continua su Tour Mundial en festivales. Esta vez en el Landhuster Kurzfilmfestval de Alemania!

TERRIFIC RESULT at THE "TERRORIFICAMENTE CORTOS"- BEST SHORT & CINEMATOGRAPHY

Joan Cobos, Laura Martin and John Jessup were asked to attend a press conference in Palencia in Spain to announce ROAKE winning BEST FILM and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY(Joan González DOP, again!) at the "Terrorificamente Cortos" Film Festival there. They were looked after splendidly by the Festival founders and organizers, Ruben, Javier and Gorka. Muchas Gracias amigos, it was a real pleasure!

Joan Cobos, Laura Martín y John Jessup participaron en la conferencia de Prensa en Palencia, España, donde se anunció que ROAKE había resultado ganador del premio de Jurado a MEJOR CORTO y MEJOR FOTOGRAFÍA(Joan González DOP de nuevo!) en el Festival "Terroríficamente Cortos". Estuvieron estupendamente acompañados por los Fundadores y organizadores del Festival, Rubén, Javier y Gorka. Muchas Gracias amigos, fue un verdadero placer!

STRIKE A LIGHT! - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Roake has now won Best Cinematography award at the Fantastik Film Festival de Granollers in Spain. Not surprising as we had a brilliant DOP in Juan Gonzalez! Congrats Juanito and thanks for your amazing work!!

Roake ha ganado el premio a Mejor Dirección de Fotografía en el Festifal Fantastik Granollers. No nos sorprende ya que teníamos al brillante DOP Juan González! Felicidades Juanito y gracias por tu increíble trabajo!

 

If you are curious about Juan González work watch it here 

ROAKE ON A ROLL in BARCELONA - BEST FANTASTIC SHORTFILM!

Our brilliant director, Joan Cobos with an interesting facial design, picking up the !Best Fantastic Short film! award for Roake, at Coll Fantasy Fest in Barcelona.

Nuestro brillante director, Joan Cobos con un interesante diseño facial, recogiendo el premio a "Mejor Cortometraje Fantástico" por Roake, en el Coll Fantasy Int. film Festival en Barcelona.

  

SOUND CHOICE AT FICCION 20!

The very talented, Miguel Angel Aquillo, who composed our soundtrack clutching the Best Music award for "Roake" in Cuenca!

El increíble Miquel Angel Aguiló, compositor de la música de "Roake", recogiendo el premio a Mejor Banda Sonora en Cuenca!

We made the cut at Abertoir!

Roake is one of only 8 short films up for awards at the Abertoir Film Festival (see what they did there with the name) in Aberyswyth Wales. The awards include the coveted Méliès d'Argent prize for the best European short, as Roake would say "One picture is all you need, it's all I ever need."

See the Shortlisted films here

Tonight ROAKE is in BCN

Roake will be screened in the amazing Marató Fantàstic i de Terror de Sants in Barcelona in the first of this week Festival Madness!

If you are around be careful with your Soul....

See the full program here

We reign in Spain!

To date we have been shortlisted at 12 film festivals across the globe, 8 of them are in Spain! There must be something about Roakes dark and mysterious story that appeals to the Spanish judges, viva España!

You can follow the adventure thorugh our Spanish distribution company Jovenes Realizadores here

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