Peter Capaldi announces BEST SHORT FILM | The British Short Film Awards 2021 Highlights

Academy Award and Icon Award winner, Peter Capaldi, announces ’Starboy’, directed by Joëlle Bentolila and produced by Tibo Travers, as the winner of Best Short Film at The British Short Film Awards 2021. “Starboy - A young Hasidic man increasingly doubts his identity, his gender, and the nature of being as conflict between him and his pious young wife escalates - with shocking consequences.“ London-based writer-director JOËLLE BENTOLILA has a number of short films, documentaries, and optioned or commissioned screenplays under her belt. In 2018, she received the UK Jewish Film / Pears Film Fund Award for her screenplay Starboy, the film subsequently winning the Best LGBTQ Short Award at HollyShorts 2019 and becoming a 2019 Iris Prize Best British Short Nominee. She has worked with notable producers in France, the UK and the US, is fascinated by stories about the mystery of the self and believes filmmaking is about truth, outrage, and excitement. Alongside a series of films and TV projects in development, s