Director, Producer, Writer Ornette Spenceley

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Ornette Spenceley career started when signed up to The National Film and Television school in 1998 as a producer. His graduation short RUNT had film festivals falling over themselves to screen it. He then went o­n to work with Danish features producer Michael Obel. In 2004 he directed his first short film LARD. (With his son Jake as the lead role). It became an instant hit and was picked up for the London and Berlin Film Festivals among others.

He currently is preparing to shoot Tight Greens Tall Yellows his second short at the end
of 2005 before developing his feature.

• RUNT (Producer & Story) - Official Selection; Cannes Cinifoundation, 1999.
  Winner, Best Film, Bologna International Short Film Festival, 1999. Winner, Best
  Film, Brest Film Festival, 1999. Winner; Special Jury Prize, Taipei Golden Lion
  Short Film Festival, 1999.
• LARD (Director, Producer & Writer) – 35mm, 6’, Official Selection; London Film
  Festival 2004, Berlin Film Festival 2005, Oberhausen Film Festival 2005, Munich
  Film Festival 2005. Flanders Film Festival 2005, Brest Film Festival 2005, Winner;
  Special Jury Prize, Copenhagen Buster Film Festival 2005, Winner; Special Jury
  Prize, Cornwall Film Festival 2005, Gala Screening. LARD continues to screen in
  festivals all over the world and has to date already been broadcast o­n
  television in France, Germany and Sweden.

read about tall greens tight yellows - a film made in Cornwall produced & directed by Ornette Spenseley