Nick Briggs in Animation Short!

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One filmmaker looking to impress the judges in this year’s Virgin Media Shorts competition is Alex Mallinson, whose short film entitled The Story Garden is not only a well-crafted, often manic, percussive look at the inhabitants of a suburban garden, but it’s also teaming with Doctor Who-related talent.

Lending their considerable skills to the film are Big Finish’s Nicholas Briggs who makes a small cameo as a continuity announcer, Ayesha Antoine, who played Ruth in the Bernice Summerfield plays, and BF musical maestro Jamie Robertson.

Now in its sixth year, Virgin Media Shorts is the biggest short film competition in the UK. The competition offers filmmakers of all shapes and sizes the chance to win £30,000 to fund their next film and mentoring from the prestigious BFI.

The competition is now closed and while the judges (who include This is England and Dead Man’s Shoes director Shane Meadows) whittled down the thousands of entries to a shortlist of twelve, you can have your say by nominating one film for the ‘lucky 13’ shortlist entry by discussing your favourite on Twitter using the hashtag #VMShortsVote.

So if you enjoyed Alex’s film why not tweet about it using the phrase using the phrase ‘#VMShortsVote The Story Garden’ and help a fellow Whovian raise the profile of his film!

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