LEIDI, graduation film of Simón Mesa Soto and edited by another LFS graduate Ricardo Saraiva, has won top prize in the Fiction section of the Tenth Cilect Prize Competition this year.
In 2014 Simón Mesa Soto received the prestigious Cannes Short Film Palme d'Or with LEIDI becoming the first UK student film to ever be awarded the coveted prize.
The International Association of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision – CILECT) was founded in Cannes, France, in 1954. By 2015 CILECT includes over 160 audio-visual educational institutions from 60 countries on 6 continents with more than 10,000 teachers and staff that annually train more than 60,000 students and communicate with an alumni network of more than 1,600,000.
The film won the Tenth Cilect Prize after securing top votes from film schools worldwide - to see the list of other shorts, please click here.